On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 8:28 PM, Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com wrote:
On 31 January 2010 05:07, John Vandenberg jayvdb@gmail.com wrote:
An important distinction is that IE for Mac users on Mac OS (classic) don't have the copious upgrade options available to IE 5.5 users on Windows.
I don't think we need to worry about Mac OS classic: http://stats.wikimedia.org/wikimedia/squids/SquidReportOperatingSystems.htm
If I'm reading that right, only 0.02% of users are using Mac OS classic (although I suppose there could be some more that have been grouped into "Other", but that won't be many).
That is still at least 1000 pageviews per month. If it does not degrade gracefully, we would be telling them to buy a new computer in order to view Wikipedia. How many contributors will be lost in the process? Only developers can tell us how many of those 1000 pageviews were logged in users.
We create projects for languages who have only ~6000 _in total_ (e.g. Creek language).
I don't see any IE 5.1 or 5.2 in this list:
http://stats.wikimedia.org/wikimedia/squids/SquidReportClients.htm
Most IE5.2 users should have upgraded to iCab. Do we have good iCab support?
IE to iCab isn't really an upgrade... it's a completely different browser, isn't it?
iCab was a supported browser long after IE for Mac was dropped.
-- John Vandenberg