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Rob Church wrote:
On 02/04/07, Tels wrote:
I really don't see how software that
outdated, buggy, insecure and
incomplete like Netscape 4.0 can even be considered to be supported.
However, that is not my decision to make.
If we stopped supporting outdated, bug-ridden, insecure and incomplete
browsers, we'd lose the vast number of users who browse Wikipedia,
voluntarily and involuntarily, via Internet Explorer.
Ba-dum ching!
Seriously though, given the choice between a mild aesthetic change for
saving web pages to disk in some browsers (who actually does this
anyway?) and *completely destroying the ability to view the site* for
people stuck on older machines...
Well policy-wise I guess it comes down to
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Don%27t_be_a_dick :)
Of course it'd be *nice* to cleanly work with the save function of more
popular browsers, but as long as we're forced to make the choice, not
crashing the old-but-hard-to-upgrade minority still gets priority.
- -- brion vibber (brion @
wikimedia.org)
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