Wedge

Just like Arantor said originally: did you test locally, and if yes, without the mass-attach plugin..?

I don't know.
There are three levels of deprecation:

- Adding a mild warning on the page.
- Adding a very visible warning on the page.
- Adding a warning, and dropping IE7 specific hacks.

Right now, I'm on level 2 for both IE6 and IE7. Should I just make it a 'mild' warning? (i.e. drop the red background, opt for something more subtle, more bearable..?) Should I make the warning very visible only if the user is a member, and thus likely to stay on the forum for more than a couple of google hit reads?
As for dropping IE7 hacks, the only one I'd be interested in dropping is the sidebar macros. While it's a really, really neat solution, and one that no other systems have never used and never will, it's still something that's there to replace boring floats. I could possibly go to level 3 and replace the IE7 hack with a basic float to at least keep pages usable.

I don't know...

Interestingly, Google Analytics tells me that wedge.org visitors are only 9% IE users, and out of these, in the last week, only 1 (one!) IE6 user. However, I also added a custom script to log IE6 and IE7 users last night, and I've already got a hundred hits or something. About half of these are hits from strange unknown bots, such as "InfoPath.1", others are equally split between IE6 and IE7 users, and every time I analyzed the IP, it was coming from Russia or Asia, so these are 'real' people, just people that use a pirated copy of XP and don't want to connect to Microsoft servers. When will someone PLEASE tell them that Microsoft competitors don't give a damn about the XP license status, and that they'll happily provide them with the latest security patches for Chrome, Opera and Firefox..?

Okay, if nobody's against this, I'll soon be removing the custom paths from Settings.php (anything that's not $boardurl and $boarddir, basically.)
I'll keep the others for now, as I said.
Since there might be security issues related to this, I've left the poll open for a few more days, in case someone wants to be heard. ;)

But they're still a PITA to keep compatible with. I know I was very unhappy with IE10's flexbox support (I managed to get it done, though), and IE11 had the oldIE compatibility mode removed, but then restored, but I've heard it's not as accurate as it used to be, so I'm hesitant in reinstalling it. For now, I'm on IE10.

[Commit revision d705553]
Author: Nao (Signed-off)
Date: Tue, 04 Mar 2014 17:03:59 +0100
Stats: 3 files changed; +5 (insertions), -1 (deletion)

• In preparation for the removal of oldIE support, which will be coming soon, I'm hereby adding a very visible (that's the goal!) error box for IE6/IE7 users, in the hope that it will encourage them to at least switch to another browser while they're visiting your forum. (Errors)
• Wrong path. It was changed between the moment the German translation was started, and now. (Install.german.php)

Sven, do you think this problem could be 'fixed' in any way that's, err... Either controllable by Wedge (so that we can avoid these support questions in the first place), or explainable without getting too technical...?

Looking at your profile, it seems that (1) your local time is correct, but (2) your timezone is the first one in the list. Wrong move when saving that page, maybe..?

Ninja'd!