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(NOTE) Current policy: <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Compatibility#Browsers> * Affected components: MediaWiki core, skins and extensions. ### Motivation * Persist / possibly improve user experience by enabling skin interfaces using of `rem` units, making them fully text zoomable by users with accessibility needs and do away with pixel based text and image sizing * Simplify design–development handover by doing away with close to incomprehensible `em` based sizing See {T262928} for more information on the negative effects of somewhat sticking to `em`s. Note that the reality of supporting Firefox 3.0+ in MediaWiki core was not fully reflected for a while any more. [[ https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Firefox/Releases/3.5 | Firefox 3.5 was the first version ]] to include crucial rendering and interaction properties like - media queries, - full `::before` and `::after` support - `opacity` instead of `-moz-opacity` property which have been widely used in core. [[https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Firefox/Releases/3.6 | Firefox 3.6]] on the other hand has introduced `rem` support and additionally from the more often used properties `background-size` or `pointer-events`. ### Proposal I'm proposing to **bump Firefox to at least v3.6+ in “Basic” in the [[ https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Compatibility#Browser_support_matrix | browser support matrix ]]**. It was released Jan 21, 2010. This would be effective in MediaWiki 1.36, released later this year. ##### Statistics To be collected.

(NOTE) Current policy: <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Compatibility#Browsers> * Affected components: MediaWiki core, skins and extensions. * Stakeholders: ** #readers-web-backlog ** Product managers ** #traffic ### Motivation * Persist / possibly improve user experience by enabling skin interfaces using of `rem` units, making them fully text zoomable by users with accessibility needs and do away with pixel based text and image sizing * Simplify design–development handover by doing away with close to incomprehensible `em` based sizing See {T262928} for more information on the negative effects of somewhat sticking to `em`s. Note that the reality of supporting Firefox 3.0+ in MediaWiki core was not fully reflected for a while any more. [[ https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Firefox/Releases/3.5 | Firefox 3.5 was the first version ]] to include crucial rendering and interaction properties like - media queries, - full `::before` and `::after` support - `opacity` instead of `-moz-opacity` property which have been widely used in core. [[https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Firefox/Releases/3.6 | Firefox 3.6]] on the other hand has introduced `rem` support and additionally from the more often used properties `background-size` or `pointer-events`. ### Proposal I'm proposing to **bump Firefox to at least v3.6+ in “Basic” in the [[ https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Compatibility#Browser_support_matrix | browser support matrix ]]**. It was released Jan 21, 2010. This would be effective in MediaWiki 1.36, released later this year. ##### Statistics To be collected.

(NOTE) Current policy: <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Compatibility#Browsers> * Affected components: MediaWiki core, skins and extensions. * Stakeholders: ** #readers-web-backlog ** Product managers ** #traffic ### Motivation * Persist / possibly improve user experience by enabling skin interfaces using of `rem` units, making them fully text zoomable by users with accessibility needs and do away with pixel based text and image sizing * Simplify design–development handover by doing away with close to incomprehensible `em` based sizing See {T262928} for more information on the negative effects of somewhat sticking to `em`s. Note that the reality of supporting Firefox 3.0+ in MediaWiki core was not fully reflected for a while any more. [[ https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Firefox/Releases/3.5 | Firefox 3.5 was the first version ]] to include crucial rendering and interaction properties like - media queries, - full `::before` and `::after` support - `opacity` instead of `-moz-opacity` property which have been widely used in core. [[https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Firefox/Releases/3.6 | Firefox 3.6]] on the other hand has introduced `rem` support and additionally from the more often used properties `background-size` or `pointer-events`. ### Proposal I'm proposing to **bump Firefox to at least v3.6+ in “Basic” in the [[ https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Compatibility#Browser_support_matrix | browser support matrix ]]**. It was released Jan 21, 2010. This would be effective in MediaWiki 1.36, released later this year. ##### Statistics To be collected.