Thanks for writing this up, Jan. I've updated the Portal Improvements page with the info that we'll be following the Mediawiki compatibility guidelines.
I've also added a phabricator ticket <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T130027> to group our Portal visitors by supported browsers, basic and unknown browsers. Cheers, Deb -- Deb Tankersley Product Manager, Discovery Wikimedia Foundation On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 10:32 AM, Guillaume Lederrey < [email protected]> wrote: > 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 >
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