On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 5:36 PM, Derric Atzrott
<datzrott(a)alizeepathology.com> 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/
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Erik Möller
VP of Engineering and Product Development, Wikimedia Foundation