It make sense to me as well to have the same compatibility everywhere. But I'm probably lacking context...
On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 5:27 PM, Erik Bernhardson <[email protected]> wrote: > I think staying with the same compat tables we use in on the mediawiki side > makes the most sense. > > On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 9:16 AM, Jan Drewniak <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >> Hi All, >> >> The portal team has had some discussions about what browsers we support on >> the wikipedia.org portal over the past week. Currently, our browser support >> is all over the map (in regards to IE anyway, almost literally any other >> browser release in the past 10 years works fine). >> >> - The typeahead suggestions work on IE6+ (but very slowly) >> >> - The baseline event logging works on IE6+ >> >> - A/B test event logging works on IE8+ (requires localStorage) >> >> - The JS language-picker works on IE9+ (requires CSS capabilities) >> >> - The upcoming A/B test (localized top-links) work on IE8+ (hasn't been >> test on lower versions) >> >> I think we should standardize on browser support. Currently our >> browser-usage from our dashboard shows >> >> IE7 at ~ 1%, >> >> IE8 at ~1.5% >> >> IE9 at ~ 1% >> >> and IE6 isn't even on the map. >> >> Mediawiki, and by extension wikipedia.org, has browser compatibility >> standards, published here: >> >> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Compatibility >> >> I think since the wikipedia portal is a gateway to the rest of wikipedia, >> it makes sense to follow the same guidelines as the rest of wikipedia. This >> would mean dropping JS support for IE8 and lower. We would still provide >> 'basic' support to IE8 and below, meaning the non-js version of the portal >> would still work for these browsers. This change would slightly change our >> dashboard metrics, but it would certainly speed-up our development time, >> allowing us to do more with our limited resources. >> >> Any objections or concerns with this approach? >> >> -Jan >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> discovery mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/discovery >> > > > _______________________________________________ > discovery mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/discovery > -- Guillaume Lederrey Operations Engineer, Discovery Wikimedia Foundation _______________________________________________ discovery mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/discovery
