Gregory Maxwell wrote:
On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 11:39 AM, Nikola Smolenski smolensk@eunet.yu wrote: [snip]
Having accurate browser usage statistics would mean that we could precisely know what browser quirks should we support, in MediaWiki and Wikipedia's Javascript.
I expect the goal should be "Work reasonably well for 99.999(pick your length)% of users". While the average counts might be interesting (i.e. that firefox is closer to 30% than the often claimed penetration numbers for firefox) I don't know that precise numbers are actually very helpful for most compatibility purposes: I don't think we could ignore MSIE 5.x just because it is only 0.05% of requests from JS enabled browsers (which it is on enwp), or that we could do something different because MSIE 6.x is only 20.59% (likewise).
I thought I had heard that wikibits.js (and possibly more) was already broken on IE5 and older?