> 2) It may be smarter to target who you want, rather than who you have My website is basically an order form and info site for customers. We don't use the web to solicit for customers. We provide outdoor advertising DC metro only so are uninterested in global marketing. Our customers use what they use.
> 3) A significant percentage of "vistors" to websites are from bots and > crawlers looking to map your site or find vulnerabilities. While the there are lots of bots listed in my stats but in the interest of brevity, i lumped them all together They didn't support nor detract from the point I was making > 4) We don't know how accurate your detection is. Your browser stats look > very skewed. Perhaps MS wrote your logging software? I believe it is IIS raw logs Skewed how? On what do you base this? The report actually lists MSIE/6, MSIE/5, MSIE/4, MSIE/3, Mozilla/1, Mozilla/0, Netscape7, 8, 4 etc. There is actually a fair amount of detail by version. (5 different opera lisings) > If you make your site hostile to anyone not using Win IE you are creating > a self-fulfilling situation I'm not talking about actively making the website 'hostile' We've tested for IE, Netscape, Mozilla, Firefox. various versions. We've not bothered with Opera, Konqueror, etc. >The share of non-MSIE browsers in the > general population is about 25% Proffer??? : <src=?> > If you think that much of the market is > insignificant you may be making a bad decision. If that is so, I agree. I just don't know where some of the statistics come from. I shared our real world experience. That's all I have to go on. We've had no (zero) calls from 3800 customers saying that the website doesn't work with their browser. ************************************************************************ * ==> QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in <== * ==> the body of an email & send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <== * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ************************************************************************ * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header "X-No-Archive: yes" will not be archived ************************************************************************
