On 6/29/14, Andre Klapper aklapper@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hi,
On Sun, 2014-06-29 at 16:56 +0100, Thomas Mulhall wrote:
Hi could we discontinue support for internet explorer 6 and 7 because jquery ui 1.11.0 drops support for internet explorer 6 and 7.
Could you elaborate how decisions made by Jquery UI developers are relevant for us, and who the "we" is here? MediaWiki?
Windows xp support internet explorer 8.
Could you elaborate why you think this is relevant? (My computer might support software that can manage a nuclear power plant, still I might not have that software installed because I don't have a nuclear power plant handy.)
In any case, absolute browser numbers for Wikimedia can be found on http://stats.wikimedia.org/wikimedia/squids/SquidReportClients.htm
andre
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Wait, we support internet explorer 6? (Currently IE 6 is 1.17% and 7 is 0.9%. On our scale, 1% is actually a very high number of people. However some bots probably use IE6 as a user-agent, so unclear if those numbers are inflated).
I would expect basic site functionality to work in IE 6. You should be able to edit a page, you should be able to read your talk page, etc. I wouldn't expect fancy new features to work unless they are critical to site function.
Basically I would expect grade "B" support for IE6 as suggested on this "outdated" page: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Browser_support#Grade_B
--bawolff