Browser Support for mobile and desktop is out of date
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	Reedy
	Mar 30 2020, 7:11 PM

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https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Compatibility#Mobile

Where browser usage is over 5% a modern experience (Grade A) is supported.
Grade A browser list on MobileFrontend is defined in .browserlistsrc file.

Looking at https://analytics.wikimedia.org/dashboards/browsers/#mobile-site-by-os/os-family-and-major-hierarchical-view only 12 and 13 are over 5%; 11 is 2.2%, 10 is 1.3%, 9 is 0.87%

https://github.com/wikimedia/mediawiki-extensions-MobileFrontend/blob/4f8ed0f/.browserslistrc#L15 says ios 6.0

Similarly, only Android 6.0 is > 5%, with Android 5.0 at 3.1% and 4.0/4.1 absent completely

https://github.com/wikimedia/mediawiki-extensions-MobileFrontend/blob/4f8ed0f/.browserslistrc#L17 says android 4.1

The ios version in .browserslistrc also doesn't agree with https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Compatibility#Desktop (6.1 vs 6.0)

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Mentioned In: T260198: Add fetch polyfill to mediawiki core
Mentioned Here: T282779: Implement Wikimedia browserslist config

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AntiCompositeNumber subscribed.Mar 30 2020, 7:26 PM

iOS 9+ and Android 4.4 (ish) are required for Wikimedia sites due to the TLS 1.0/1.1 deprecation, so it would be impossible for iOS 6-8 to show up in the analytics. While older versions might still be supported elsewhere, I think that's a good hint to downgrade them officially in MobileFrontend.

Jdforrester-WMF subscribed.Mar 30 2020, 11:20 PM

polishdeveloper added a project: Web-Team-Backlog.Mar 31 2020, 3:30 PM

phuedx triaged this task as Medium priority.Mar 31 2020, 3:50 PM

phuedx moved this task from Incoming to Triaged but Future on the Web-Team-Backlog board.Mar 31 2020, 3:58 PM

@ovasileva now might be a good time to check these (along with revisiting the same for desktop)

ovasileva edited projects, added Web-Team-Backlog (Kanbanana-2019-20-Q4); removed Web-Team-Backlog.Jul 2 2020, 10:24 AM

Jdlrobson renamed this task from Mobile Browser Support is out of date to Browser Support for mobile and desktop is out of date.Jul 2 2020, 5:41 PM

Jdlrobson moved this task from Needs Analysis to Upcoming on the Web-Team-Backlog (Kanbanana-2019-20-Q4) board.Jul 2 2020, 9:08 PM

MBinder_WMF edited projects, added Web-Team-Backlog (Kanbanana-FY-2020-21); removed Web-Team-Backlog (Kanbanana-2019-20-Q4).Jul 9 2020, 5:14 PM

MBinder_WMF moved this task from Needs Analysis to Upcoming on the Web-Team-Backlog (Kanbanana-FY-2020-21) board.Jul 9 2020, 5:14 PM

Jdlrobson mentioned this in T260198: Add fetch polyfill to mediawiki core.Aug 11 2020, 9:51 PM

ovasileva moved this task from Upcoming to Needs Analysis on the Web-Team-Backlog (Kanbanana-FY-2020-21) board.Aug 31 2020, 1:19 PM

ovasileva claimed this task.Aug 31 2020, 5:16 PM

Apparently a conversation around this is happening elsewhere which Olga is keeping an eye on.

Volker_E subscribed.Sep 21 2020, 5:04 PM

ovasileva edited projects, added Web-Team-Backlog; removed Web-Team-Backlog (Kanbanana-FY-2020-21).Jan 13 2021, 6:26 PM

ovasileva moved this task from Needs Prioritization to Triaged but Future on the Web-Team-Backlog board.

@ovasileva did this conversation get any resolution?

Jdlrobson moved this task from Triaged but Future to Not ready to estimate on the Web-Team-Backlog board.Jul 23 2021, 5:09 PM

MobileFrontend is now using Wikimedia central 'browserslist-config-wikimedia', (T282779). Per extension overrides are still possible. Setting on “resolved”

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