It make sense to me as well to have the same compatibility everywhere.
But I'm probably lacking context...

On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 5:27 PM, Erik Bernhardson
<ebernhardson@wikimedia.org> wrote:
> I think staying with the same compat tables we use in on the mediawiki side
> makes the most sense.
>
> On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 9:16 AM, Jan Drewniak <jdrewniak@wikimedia.org>
> wrote:
>>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> The portal team has had some discussions about what browsers we support on
>> the wikipedia.org portal over the past week. Currently, our browser support
>> is all over the map (in regards to IE anyway, almost literally any other
>> browser release in the past 10 years works fine).
>>
>> - The typeahead suggestions work on IE6+ (but very slowly)
>>
>> - The baseline event logging works on IE6+
>>
>> - A/B test event logging works on IE8+ (requires localStorage)
>>
>> - The JS language-picker works on IE9+ (requires CSS capabilities)
>>
>> - The upcoming A/B test (localized top-links) work on IE8+ (hasn't been
>> test on lower versions)
>>
>> I think we should standardize on browser support. Currently our
>> browser-usage from our dashboard shows
>>
>> IE7 at ~ 1%,
>>
>> IE8 at  ~1.5%
>>
>> IE9 at ~ 1%
>>
>> and IE6 isn't even on the map.
>>
>> Mediawiki, and by extension wikipedia.org, has browser compatibility
>> standards, published here:
>>
>> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Compatibility
>>
>> I think since the wikipedia portal is a gateway to the rest of wikipedia,
>> it makes sense to follow the same guidelines as the rest of wikipedia. This
>> would mean dropping JS support for IE8 and lower. We would still provide
>> 'basic' support to IE8 and below, meaning the non-js version of the portal
>> would still work for these browsers. This change would slightly change our
>> dashboard metrics, but it would certainly speed-up our development time,
>> allowing us to do more with our limited resources.
>>
>> Any objections or concerns with this approach?
>>
>> -Jan
>>
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