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 > <http://discovery.wmflabs.org/portal/#browser_breakdown> 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 > >
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