Talk:VisualEditor/2012-13 Q2 forward-look

Browser support
To determine if you are going to support a specific browser, why don't you create a weighted percentage. So start with all browsers that make up >1% of all hits to the site. Then subtract say 1% for every browser bug that has to be worked around in code (raising maintenance costs) and 5% for every bug that can't be worked around (meaning some specific functionality of the wiki is broken in that browser). You could reference the bug numbers in the matrix so it would be completely obvious how you came to a specific conclusion.

On a different topic, how can you not support IE8 when that's 8% of your hits? That's an enormous number of users. --Cneubauer (talk) 13:19, 21 November 2012 (UTC)


 * To answer your second point first: because, by your suggested metric, IE8 would be negative several hundred per cent.
 * This would be an intriguing piece of work. But we don't have people lying around able to take on such a mammoth task. Also, I'm not quite sure what you mean by "bug numbers" - most browsers don't have a public bug repository, and the ones that do rarely are the ones we have problems with. :-) Are you suggesting (for example) that MediaWiki should track thousands of upstream bugs like "IE (10 and below) deviate from HTML specification by ignoring 'contenteditable: false;', or similar?" Jdforrester (WMF) (talk) 17:51, 21 November 2012 (UTC)