The best way we can invest in Firefox is via open web technology such as
push notifications imo.
On Thu, 31 Aug 2017 at 16:51 Max Semenik <maxsem.wiki(a)gmail.com> wrote:
+1 to that. Additionally, the proposed method
wouldn't even work because we
blacklist crappy browsers from receiving JS.
On Thu, Aug 31, 2017 at 1:37 PM, bawolff <bawolff+wn(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Thu, Aug 31, 2017 at 8:14 PM, Legoktm
<legoktm.wikipedia(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
> Hello,
>
> This was something that came up during "The Big Open" at Wikimania,
when
Katherine
Maher talked with Ryan Merkley (CEO of Creative Commons) and
Mark Surman (ED of Mozilla Foundation). One of the themes mentioned was
that our projects need to work together and support each other.
In that vein, I'm interested in what people think about promoting
Firefox to users who are using legacy browsers that we don't support at
Grade A (or some other criteria). As part of the "drop IE8 on XP"
project[1] we're already promoting Firefox as the alternative option. I
was imagining it could be a small and unobtrusive bubble
notification[2], similar to those that Google pushes Chrome on people
with.
>
> If users use modern browsers, they're going to have better security
> support, and most likely a better experience browsing Wikimedia sites
> too. We'd be improving the web by reducing legacy browsers, and
allowing
us to
move forward with newer technology sooner (ideally).
And we'd be supporting a project that is ideologically aligned with us:
Mozilla.
Thoughts, opinions?
[1]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T147199
[2]
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Bubble_notifications
Thanks,
-- Legoktm
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I'm concerned this would be seen as an inapropriate bias.
Suggesting Firefox for IE8 on XP makes sense because it is basically
the only option for that platform that is reasonably secure and not
super obscure. Promoting firefox is general for legacy browsers seems
like a slippery slope to me.
Additionally, I think this is more a political than a technical
decision, and one that would require consultation with the general
Wikimedia community (e.g. Meta RFC).
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