On 20 November 2012 22:12, Leslie Carr <lcarr(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
I hate to make our job more difficult, but I think
Faidon had a good point --
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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.
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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?time…
J.
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James D. Forrester
Product Manager, VisualEditor
Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.
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