I'm happy to see us talking about leaving these old browsers behind, but it seems a few existing policies and situations may have been overlooked in this thread thus far.
Hopefully this list of things to consider will be helpful:
1. We are planning on moving away from jQuery UI this year as part of our UI standardization push 2. We have a policy in place that any browser with 0.1% market share or more should be supported for reading and basic contribution 3. We have a policy that reading and basic contribution should be possible without JavaScript 4. Depending on the feature, IE 6 and 7 are already unsupported 5. Not supporting older browsers is not always about work involved, many times it is not possible to bring certain features to a browser because of lack of support or severe bugs
- Trevor
On Sun, Jun 29, 2014 at 4:27 PM, Daniel Norton daniel@danielnorton.com wrote:
On Jun 29, 2014, at 6:12 PM, Tim Starling tstarling@wikimedia.org wrote:
Reading between the lines: updates are complicated. …[M]any of the Windows operating systems are not direct purchases – these methods do not allow upgrade.
i.e. virtually all copies of IE6 are pirated.
There are also concerns in China about U.S.-government back doors into later versions of I.E.
http://www.cnet.com/news/microsoft-china-clash-over-windows-8-and-charges-of...
— Daniel
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