On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 9:11 AM, Trevor Parscal tparscal@wikimedia.org wrote:
.. I think that's obvious. In all seriousness though, we may want to consider the possibility of letting users know about features they are missing out on. In the case of the UsabilityInitiative work I'm doing, IE6 hasn't really been a problem since we ditched it long ago. Users of IE6 won't even know how wonderful things might be on the other side of the upgrade.
IE 6.0 was the third most popular browser in November 2009, with 12% of the marketshare.
http://stats.wikimedia.org/wikimedia/squids/SquidReportClients.htm
A fully patched Windows 2000 machine only upgrades as far as 6.x; IE7&8 are not available for W2K. Of course, W2K users can migrate to Firefox, so they do have options, however IE6 is sufficiently functional for wikitext editing and reading.
Is the UsabilityInitiative ignoring IE 6.0?
-- John Vandenberg