On 20 November 2012 22:12, Leslie Carr lcarr@wikimedia.org wrote:
I hate to make our job more difficult, but I think Faidon had a good point --
<Quote> Agreed. IE 9 is only supported from Vista onwards and Windows XP is 21.29% of our user base according to the latest stats¹. I'm not sure it's realistic to say that 20% of our user base may just "happen to work" by luck. </Quote>
Perhaps a percentage of use threshold system would be a bit better? I don't see a breakdown of a % of requests per client type (desktop/phone/tablet) here - http://stats.wikimedia.org/wikimedia/squids/SquidReportClients.htm , but it should be creatable and hopefully bring a balance between trying to come up with crazy workarounds for old clients and keeping functionality for the vast majority of users.
Do you mean a breakdown by combination of OS, OS version, browser, and browser version? Yes, this would be very useful. The closest data on this I can find online[*] (Flash, eww) sadly doesn't give the breakdown by browser version (and the numbers are a little different to ours; they're probably polling from a different demographic).
[*] - http://www.statowl.com/operating_system_market_share_by_os_version.php?timef...
J. -- James D. Forrester Product Manager, VisualEditor Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.
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