On 11/8/06, Barney Carroll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Chris Ovenden wrote: > > I have to disagree. According to the BBC > > (http://www.bbc.co.uk/guidelines/newmedia/technical/browser_support.shtml), > > only 23% of their visitors have XP SP2 installed (ie only about a > > third of XP users). Even if we assume all those people accept the IE7 > > upgrade (and it's likely most will), it will remain a minority browser > > for many years, if not forever. (I am skeptical about Vista ever being > > widespread, which would be the main factor in further adoption, and > > still contingent upon an as-yet undetected slowdown in Firefox use.) > > I have to agree with this. There was a silent consensus of panic where I > work when I found that Microsoft were about to make IE7 a 'recommended > download'... Luckily IE7 is very well behaved over-all and I only had to > spend a couple of ours updating all our websites for it. > > However, the assertion that Microsoft's announcement meant that everyone > will soon be using IE7 was not a reasonable one. As well as the factors > Chris points to, we have to consider the notion of people looking to > Vista PCs as alternatives to Macs - which in the popular eye are the new PC.
It certainly would be a very good time for Apple to loudly reduce their notoriously high prices. -- Chris Ovenden http://thepeer.blogspot.com "Imagine all the people / Sharing all the world" ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d IE7 information -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=IE7 List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
