Not griping, pointimg out something to consider.
One fine day I found that my old browsers were not welcomed here. They would not even load the linked page of acceptable browsers.
So I stopped visiting, because my computer is too old.
Because my primary objective with CP was to continue posting creative works and not profit, I had to choose between programs which I’d paid for and still did the work I needed or upgrading everything so I could use a browser which pleased the webmaster here.
In the end, I made a Linux stick for the fussy handwaving people who think that updating magically resolves user idiocy.
Do what you will, but enforcing browsers, to me as a poor person, is an asinine elitist move that undermines the very purpose of CP. An old browser does not threeaten your site.
Typing this in my car on my phone, with a $4 bluetooth keyboard from a grocery store’s clearance pile.
Does CP only want support and involvement from wealthy people? Do those folks somehow embody better knowledge of best practices? My own experience says no. Safer thing really would be to reject all Edge users.
“This site best viewed with Internet Explorer 6…”
Hi! How old is your computer that you can’t install any of the countless light Linux distributions? Did you try Puppy linux or something similar?
If CP is what you want it to be (so with support for ancient browsers and libraries), it will be a bloated CMS.. And nobody wants that. Besides the fact that outdated browsers may be unsafe to use.
Yes, all of these entitled developers, they think that everyone lives in wealth, and has similar priorities to them. But bloat is also an aspect to that, for sure. Could we put tht bloat into a plugin, though?
We all give lip service to accessibility these days. I have many friends in third world countries, unable to view my pages, because wp just demands too much.
Those people, though - they have no voice - and we developers think its easier not to worry about that negative, no user story. After all, they have no money….
I have done some research and it seems a plugin to support IE11 only, and only on ClassicPress is viable. Would that help you?
Also, with my new EditorXL plugin, I am introducing a tab key and special key combination set to allow editing without a mouse, as another form of legacy/fall-back support.
@throwback I have the first test plugin if you want to try it.