As a Wikidata developer, I want there to be a clear stance on which browsers the WDQS GUI supports and doesn’t support, so that I know how to write my code.
Problem:
As far as I’m aware, the query service UI nominally still supports IE11 – I don’t think we’ve made a decision to drop it in the past. (Note that MediaWiki recently dropped ES5 support, see T178356.) That said, I don’t think it’s actually supported very well – T243382 has gone unaddressed for years, for instance, and IIRC @Michael tested it in a Windows VM more recently and found that it was totally broken. (But I’m not aware of any other user complaints about it either.)
Let’s have a proper decision from Wikidata product management about which browsers we support.
Acceptance criteria:
- The decision about which browsers are supported is made and recorded somewhere.
- Potentially, follow-up tasks for e.g. adjusting ESLint config are created.
Open questions:
