Who said anything about dropping support for basic use? I would be surprised if you could tell much difference on Mac IE between Wikipedia with the custom stylesheet and without. But perhaps you could give it a try and report back to us, rather than relying on my wild speculations :)
Ryan Kaldari On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 8:27 PM, Gregory Maxwell <gmaxw...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 6:34 PM, John Vandenberg <jay...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> Even then, there is >>> <http://www.askvg.com/download-mozilla-firefox-30-portable-edition-no-installation-needed/> >> >> Excuse me? please read the earlier posts in this thread. >> >> I am talking about IE for Mac Classic. >> >> iCab support? Is Classilla a sensible replacement for people still >> using IE for Mac? etc. > > I couldn't get classzilla running on a blue and white G3 running 9.0.2 > when I tried it a couple months ago. > > I have a couple of these systems for driving some embedded hardware > that never got moved to anything more modern, they'd be perfectly > adequate systems for webbrowsing if you could get a workably up to > date webbrowser on them: The IE the OS ships with hard locks the > machine on apple.com of all places! I was only bothering to attempt > this because I wanted to get a screenshot of cortado playing videos on > something very old, and I only spent an hour or so on it. (Wikipedia, > OTOH, worked fine with the IE that comes with the OS on those systems) > > > But seriously. Outright *excluding* these old things shouldn't even be > a consideration. Even a very small audience (like 0.02%) is tens of > thousands of readers. Mediawiki (and the WMF deployment) already has > many features which don't work / don't work well on fairly old > systems, so that bridge has already been crossed, but outright > dropping support for basic use? > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
