\o/ what terrific news to wake up to! Derric I think we are in agreement on the way forward! You are not saying anything I disagree with :) On 6 Aug 2014 07:33, "Erik Moeller" <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 5:36 PM, Derric Atzrott > <[email protected]> wrote: > >>> I would like to make a case for moving more browsers into the grade C > >>> category. > > >> Yes please. As a project that must live the test of time I think we > should > >> be focusing our energy on building for future browsers. Our main goal > is to > >> provide people knowledge which can be done without JavaScript. Older > >> browsers hold us back in my opinion. > > > I would also support this, for similar, but slightly different reasons. > I > > agree that we need to make sure that the project stands the test of > time, and > > for that reason I think we need to make Grade C a first class citizen. > > OK. I've submitted a change to do this for MSIE6 for now. [1] It got > merged quickly, but please update if I missed anything (I'll add > release notes now). Provided there are no concerns with this, I'll > send a note to wikitech-ambassadors@ soon, drafted here: > > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Eloquence/MSIE6 > > This case seems very obvious given the unpatched vulnerabilities and > lack of official support; let's discuss additional browsers/categories > of browsers on a case by case basis. > > Timo, I also noticed that the definition of "grade C" in startup.js > was inconsistent with what's on the mediawiki.org page so I updated it > accordingly. > > Thanks, > Erik > > [1] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/152072/ > -- > Erik Möller > VP of Engineering and Product Development, Wikimedia Foundation > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
