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Van: Wikitech-ambassadors <wikitech-ambassadors-bounces(a)lists.wikimedia.org> namens
Krinkle <krinklemail(a)gmail.com>
Verzonden: donderdag 12 november 2015 03:13
Aan: Wikitech-ambassadors(a)lists.wikimedia.org
Onderwerp: [Wikitech-ambassadors] IE 8 users will get JavaScript-less experience starting
January 2016
Hey all,
Starting in January 2016, MediaWiki will end JavaScript support for Microsoft Internet
Explorer 8. This raises the cut-off up from MSIE 7. Users with this browser will still be
able to browse, edit, and otherwise contribute to the site. However, some features will
not be available to them. For example, the enhanced edit toolbar will not appear, and the
notification buttons will take you to a page rather than a pop-out.
This change will affect roughly 0.89% of all traffic to Wikimedia wikis (as of October
2015). For comparison, 0.33% of traffic comes from Internet Explorer 6, and 1.46% from
Internet Explorer 7. Support for these was dropped in August and September 2014
respectively.
Providing JavaScript for IE 8 adds a significant maintenance burden. It also bloats the
software we ship to all users, without proportionate benefit. This enables us to simplify
and streamline the JavaScript codebase for all other users. Users unable to upgrade from
Internet Explorer 8 will have a faster experience going forward, based on well-tested and
more stable code.
This change will land in the development branch in January, and so will be part of
MediaWiki 1.27 (to be released around May 2016).
Tech News will announce this change as well, but please help carry this message into your
communities. In January, we will send a reminder before the change happens.
Yours,
-- Krinkle
For details about the JavaScript-less experience, see
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Compatibility
Compatibility - MediaWiki
MediaWiki strives to maintain broad compatibility between versions, and with a range of
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