This is fantastic news. Now if only Google would release Chrome for Win2K to un-obsolete many valuable Win2K licenses.
For what it's worth, Firefox 4 runs fine on Win2K last I checked.
WordPress Discontinues Support for Internet Explorer 6
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Re: WordPress Discontinues Support for Internet Explorer 6
#22Earlier quoted context omitted.
I can think of several large sites or organizations who have dropped IE6 support in the past year. There's nothing lazy about not supporting PHP 4. It is outdated and flawed, and the last release was in 2008. PHP 5 has been out for over 5 years. The fact that those sites are timebombs is not WordPress's fault or their problem.
For modern code that starts off with PHP5 it's fine and understandable to restrict versions. But WordPress is an "ancient" legacy mess and does not have any advanced code that benefits from PHP5 - you actually have to go out of your way to break it for PHP4. There is nothing in it that cannot be fixed for PHP4 without one extra line or two. Note that 99.9% of WordPress3 works on PHP4 - only the security updating fail…
As the developer who wrote the Upgrading classes; I'd just like to say that PHP4 is, and always was, supported. The upgrade code hasn't been really affected by the switch to PHP5.2.4
All the known issues with PHP4 and upgrading have been down to bad configurations of the servers, and quite often, insecure configurations of shared hosts. Often swtiching to their servers PHP5 support would "fix" it, simply due to the PHP5 configuration often being setup better than their legacy php.ini for php4 from when php 4.1 was standard..
> and it fails in an uncontrolled way, not because it checks for the PHP version and stops - it actually fails silently (which is also typical WP style).
Did you ever bother helping fix that? If it's failing silently it's either due to a timeout (often configuration related), php error (often plugin related), or http error (dodgy php configuration, or extension is malfunctioning - curl i'm looking at you!)
WordPress has usage stats of what servers are running, The majority of PHP 4.4 hosts have access to PHP5 through their hosts, they just have to turn it on. Most other major webhosts have been contacted and have plans to support php5 as well.
Every other major web application has made the move, It's time for webhosts to spend their customers monthly fee's on providing up to date, secure services, not just letting the server rot..
Re: WordPress Discontinues Support for Internet Explorer 6
#23This is fantastic news. Now if only Google would release Chrome for Win2K to un-obsolete many valuable Win2K licenses.
For what it's worth, Firefox 4 runs fine on Win2K last I checked.
Only with FF 4 has the browser been speedy enough to run on the typical kind of hardware sold with a Win2K license. Chrome is extremely fast and would un-obsolete so much more hardware even than FF4.
Re: WordPress Discontinues Support for Internet Explorer 6
#24Earlier quoted context omitted.
For what it's worth, Firefox 4 runs fine on Win2K last I checked.
Only with FF 4 has the browser been speedy enough to run on the typical kind of hardware sold with a Win2K license. Chrome is extremely fast and would un-obsolete so much more hardware even than FF4.
Chrome uses way more memory than Firefox 4. So it may in fact not run all that well on some of the lower-end hardware....