On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 05:46:22PM -0800, Brion Vibber wrote:
"Current and immediately-previous" releases
are also really hard to match
up between projects on fast release cycles (like Chrome and Firefox which
are pushing out new "major versions" every couple months) and those where
"major versions" only change a few times per decade, like IE.
Supporting Chrome 22 (23 - 1) and supporting IE 9 (10 - 1) are totally
different animals with different usage profiles. Really nobody should be
running Chrome 22 -- it probably means your computer's broken and not
installing updates -- but IE 9's all over the place -- as is 8.
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.
Regards,
Faidon
¹:
http://stats.wikimedia.org/wikimedia/squids/SquidReportOperatingSystems.htm