Great news! Have we considered dropping IE 10 to grade C given Microsoft ended support for it more than a year ago and it seems to be as low as IE 9 (only a 0.24% *[1]*)?
Also, a question. Does this mean we don't need to explicitly list the *es5-shim* any more? Thanks for the great work. *[1]* all-sites-by-browser/browser-family-and-major-hierarchical-view <https://analytics.wikimedia.org/dashboards/browsers/#all-sites-by-browser/browser-family-and-major-hierarchical-view> with this filter: 2017-01-01 - 2017-03-20 On Sat, Mar 18, 2017 at 5:03 AM, Krinkle <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > Starting in April 2017, MediaWiki will end Grade A support for browsers > that > do not implement ES5 JavaScript. [1] This affects Internet Explorer 9 users > and others using very old mobile browsers. [2] Users with these browsers > will > still be able to browse and contribute to the projects. Enhanced features > will > become unavailable. For example, the enhanced edit toolbar will not appear, > and notification buttons will take you to a page rather than open a > pop-out. > > This change will affect roughly 0.59% of page views to Wikimedia wikis (as > of > February 2017 [2]). Internet Explorer 9 (0.27%), mobile users on iOS 4 > (Mobile > Safari 5 — 0.02% of traffic), and Android 2 (0.1%). For comparison, 0.3% of > traffic comes from Internet Explorer 8 (JavaScript-less since January > 2016). > > Providing JavaScript for IE 9 and other ES3 browsers adds a significant > maintenance burden. It also hinders site speed for all users. Microsoft > ended > its official support for Internet Explorer 9 and 10 in January 2016. [4] > Users unable to upgrade from IE 9 or Android 2 will have a faster > experience > going forward, based on well-tested and more stable code. > > This change will land in the development branch used on all Wikimedia wikis > this April, to be released as part of MediaWiki 1.29 around May 2017. > > Please help carry this message into your communities. > (Tech News has announced this change as well) > > Yours, > -- Timo > > For details about the JavaScript-less experience, see > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Compatibility > > > [1] http://caniuse.com/#feat=use-strict Browser support for ES5 (strict) > [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T128115#3066522 Breakdown of > Wikimedia page views from pre-ES5 browsers > [3] > https://analytics.wikimedia.org/dashboards/browsers/#all- > sites-by-browser/browser-family-and-major-hierarchical-view > (Note: Filter date to last 2-3 months only!) > [4] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/WindowsForBusiness/End-of-IE-support > http://venturebeat.com/2016/01/12/microsoft-ends-support- > for-ie8-ie9-ie10-and-windows-8/ > _______________________________________________ > 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
