We should blacklist Safari<5.1 from receiving JavaScript. My immediate motivation is T75734.
According to https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Compatibility#Browser_support_matrix this should already be the case, but it isn't.
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| Status | Subtype | Assigned | Task | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Declined | None | T75734 mediawiki.ui checkbox not working on Safari for iOS 5.1.1 | |||
| Declined | None | T100879 Blacklist Safari<5.1 from receiving JavaScript in the startup module |
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Per T128115#3082019, it looks like Safari 5.1 does consistently pass. Safari 5.0 got pretty messy on iOS with regards to backports. I don't really know what's going on there. Even the same exact UA strings are showing up as both fail and pass. Same OS, same built-in Safari version, same built-in WebKit build, even in the same mode ("Safari" and embedded app WebView have different UA strings).
@matmarex This task calls for blacklisting "Safari < 5.1", I assume that means Safari 5.0.x and earlier. However, the mentioned T75734 is about Mobile Safari on iOS 5.1.1. I guess iOS 5.1.x came with Mobile Safari 5.0.x? The data I have confirms this but just wanted to double check. (The 5.x releases are confusing since the browser and OS versions coincided.)
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You know, I'm not sure how this would help at all for T75734… does anyone have any idea what I might have been thinking? This task seems to make no sense at all.
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@Jdforrester-WMF iOS 5.1.1 runs Mobile Safari 5.0, not 5.1. So < was right, I guess.
@matmarex If I understand T75734 correctly, it is about mediawiki.ui and stylesheets, which will be required even for Grade C, which Safari 5.0 will be supported as for a while considering we're only just about to drop it from Grade A - presumably it is not affected by JavaScript? Or does this bug not happen with the oojs-ui core stylesheet?
Closing this for now..