Hoi, The people with IE6 have disproportionally problems with reading Wikipedia in their mother tongue and IE6 can be found particularly in the "global south". Also CommScore numbers are unlikely to see this potential.
The question is not should we support IE6, it is just that I wonder about what our numbers show. Thanks, GerardM
On 14 April 2011 11:14, Roan Kattouw roan.kattouw@gmail.com wrote:
2011/4/14 Siebrand Mazeland s.mazeland@xs4all.nl:
So when will we be able to drop IE6 support in MediaWiki completely? What metrics/thresholds can we use?
IMO there's a difference between no longer supporting IE6 and no longer protecting IE6 users from XSS attacks.
I would suggest to set a percentage of worldwide usage as reported by
some
"trusted" statistics reported, or possibly a percentage of Wikimedia pageviews. 3% or 4%?
At least for JavaScript feature development, our unofficial cutoff for "we're not gonna spend any time on this browser, if it works, great, if it doesn't, tough luck" is 0.5%. However, that's just for JS enhancements; it's my opinion that at least reading Wikipedia should be possible (i.e. not severely broken) in almost every browser.
Roan Kattouw (Catrope)
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