Hi,
If you didn't take the Arun Ganesh's proposition seriously, you can ignore this mail.
On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 1:21 PM, Arun Ganesh arun.planemad@gmail.com wrote:
As someone who writes css, I am particularly frightened by IE7. And I can imagine there are a lot of frontend developers and staff out there who spend significant time on fixing things for this niche audience, when they could be working on more constructive things. I came across this service today which has started to levy a a surcharge on IE7 users [1] and it got me thinking.
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As one of the most visited places on the internet, it is probably in the best interests of the planet that we decide its no longer worthwhile to support this fallen angel. Maybe it time to start showing a notice to IE7 users that their days are numbered and wikipedia may no longer work as expected unless they move forward in their lives. It has to happen some day, so why not now and save the internet a lot of pain and suffering?
Our mission isn't to "save the internet a lot of pain and suffering".
The WMF mission is "to empower and engage people around the world to collect and develop educational content under a free license or in the public domain, and to disseminate it effectively and globally.".
I don't know if there are mission statement for the Wikimedia tech or the MediaWiki developers communities, but I don't think to improve some developers comfort pushing so strongly issues like not supporting a product help DIRECTLY our objectives WITHOUT BREAKING OTHER OBJECTIVES (like for the WMF, "to disseminate [the educational content] effectively and GLOBALLY").
I fear this GLOBALLY includes the 1.5-5% IE7 marketshare.