On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 1:46 PM, Chad innocentkiller@gmail.com wrote:
Absolutely not. We have debated the "show notice to broken browsers" thing multiple times--and the answer is always "it's annoying as hell when sites do it and it's not our place to do so."
The stance on "supporting crappy old browsers" has largely over time turned into--continue supporting all browsers with at least 1% of our readers (roughly,I don't believe that number's ever been set in stone). Once they are less than 1%, continue supporting unless it's a burden to do so and/or makes support for newer browsers impossible. And lastly, never purposefully break a browser if you can help it.
Just to give some data: Looking at May, this 1% limit would mean supporting the following browser versions (May 2012 data):
* Chrome 18.0 and 19.0 * MSIE 6.0, 7.0, 8.0 and 9.0 * Firefox 3.6, 11.0 and 12.0 * Safari 534.55 (desktop), 6533.18 and 7534.48 (iOS) * Opera 11.62 and 11.64 * Safari 533.1 (Android browser)
Furthermore, the following have no version at or over 1%, but do get there or at least near when all versions are combined: * Opera Mini * WikipediaMobile (our own mobile app) * BlackBerry browser * Apple PubSub (rss reader)