[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #18199: Deprecate IE7 in the Admin

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#18199: Deprecate IE7 in the Admin
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 Reporter:  nacin           |       Owner:
     Type:  enhancement     |      Status:  closed
 Priority:  normal          |   Milestone:
Component:  Administration  |     Version:
 Severity:  normal          |  Resolution:  fixed
 Keywords:                  |     Focuses:  ui
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Changes (by aaroncampbell):

 * keywords:  needs-patch =>
 * status:  new => closed
 * resolution:   => fixed
 * milestone:  Future Release =>


Comment:

 I think we're done with this as a ticket, so I'm going to close it. At
 this point our basic stance is: we don't officially support IE7 in the
 admin, so we don't sink a lot of time into it.

 At this point, the consideration has really moved past IE7 anyway, so here
 are some stats as they stand:
 [http://www.w3counter.com/globalstats.php?year=2015&month=9 W3 Counter
 September 2015 Market Share] says both IE8 and IE7 are too small to list
 (definitely under 2% likely much smaller than that)
 [https://clicky.com/marketshare/global/web-browsers/internet-explorer/
 Clicky] has IE8 at 1-1.6% and IE7 at 0
 [http://www.netmarketshare.com/browser-market-
 share.aspx?qprid=2&qpcustomd=0 Net Market Share] has IE8 at 11.7% (quite
 the anomaly it seems), and IE7 at .4%
 [http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser_version-ww-monthly-201508-201509-bar
 Stat Counter] has IE8 at 2.2% and IE7 has dropped off

 Considering both the existing percentages and that
 [https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/ie/mt163707 Microsoft will no longer
 be supporting IE 7, 8, or 10 as of January 2016], I think it's safe to say
 that we can focus on supporting IE9 & 11, but we'll always support older
 browsers when it's easy to do so (and not damaging to the experience of
 the majority).

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Ticket URL: <https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/18199#comment:24>
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