On Wed, Jul 08, 2009 at 10:58:43AM -0400, William Allen Simpson wrote:
My thought is that the 5 tags that are marked as well-supported could be used, but be very cautious about abandoning 4. There are a lot of old machines out there, and many cannot upgrade to newer browsers, because they cannot upgrade their underlying operating systems.
For example: schools, already heavy *pedia users. And political campaigns often use cast-off machines. Win98 or 2K means no upgrades.
I don't think there is any suggestion that backwards compatibility should be broken. MediaWiki is a project which has strived to keep full compatibility with most browsers since its creation.
Robert