On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 2:27 PM, Chad <innocentkil...@gmail.com> wrote: > All browsers die eventually, it's our job to kill support around the > same time. Not while there's still a good percentage using it (and > 20% is a fair chunk), but rather when it's practically un-used anyway.
This is precisely it. We will cease to support IE6 when it's no longer used by a significant percentage of our users. Not when we think its users should upgrade, not when Microsoft thinks its users should upgrade, not when some militant anti-Microsoft brigade thinks its users should upgrade -- but rather when users *have* *already* upgraded. On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 4:37 PM, Tei <oscar.vi...@gmail.com> wrote: > It make some sense. Internet Explorer is like a "webmaster tax", > where the webmasters have to dedicate the 60% of his work to fix IE > bugs. That's a ridiculously gross exaggeration. In the particular case of MediaWiki, the real work in making us IE6-compatible was done long ago. The ongoing cost of IE6 support is fairly close to zero. Only the occasional feature is complicated by its lack of selector support or whatnot. > A campaing to upgrade browsers (not only IE ,but also Netscape, Opera, > Firefox, etc...) is a good thing for the Internet It's slightly good for most users (very slightly in Wikipedia's case), and *very* bad for the large minority that still uses IE6. We are just not going to ignore a fifth or more of our users, period. To do so would be completely irresponsible. There would most definitely not be a net benefit to users, only to developers. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
