On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 9:33 AM, James Forrester jforrester@wikimedia.org wrote:
On 20 November 2012 23:54, Martijn Hoekstra martijnhoekstra@gmail.com wrote:
I think a best of both worlds would be preferable. I haven't seen the stats, but I'd assume market share of IE 10 will be quite low. Still it would be silly to not strive to support it.
Well, until this month IE 10 wasn't released (just a developer version; I wasn't counting these). Thus the "current and immediately-previous versions" for IE would have been 9 and 8. Supporting browsers before they're released is a nice-to-have and, as you say, sensible to get ahead of the work, but it's not as crucial as fixing "live" versions for millions of people.
How about any browser released in the last n months whose browser family has more then x % market share plus any individual browser version with more then m % market share for some sensible figures n, x and m?
Interesting idea. Perhaps x = 5, m = 1 and n = 12; with these numbers we'd get pretty much what I suggested, plus IE 7 and Opera 12. The cost of supporting these (especially IE 7) would be heroic in some areas, however - but that's what the "local policies" for different features are for, after all.
I think this sounds like a great compromise (perhaps even with m = 2 ?)
Leslie
J.
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