Hi,
On Monday 23 February 2004 23:04, Optim wrote:
--- Hunter Peress hfastjava@yahoo.com wrote:
It is wrong to support old browsers because it makes wikipedia maintainance more crufty and difficult.
Disagree. We should try to support all browsers, all computer architectures, all people.
It's not good to force people upgrade.
A line has to be drawn somewhere. It's impossible to support all/all/all. Now, where that line should be drawn is a subject of hot debate :)
(personally, I think a site should conform to current accepted and implemented standards such as xhtml 1.1, css1/2, svg, etc. and not worry too much about browsers that don't render those well (as opposed to not at all, in which case a transformation to plaintext may be needed as an alternative). If trying to stay backwards compatible means making compromises for the majority of users, it's not worth it IMHO.)
Wikipedia runs reasonable well on everything I've tried and use, so the status quo ain't that bad :)
ttyl, Eike