On 1 Oct 2006 at 14:10, Richard Yates wrote: > > The reality is there are still 70-80% IE users. > > The breakdown at my site in 2006: > > MS Internet Explorer 75.9 % > Firefox 2.4 % > Safari 3.7 % > Unknown 3.3 % > Mozilla 1.4 % > Opera 1.2 % > Netscape 0.8 %
The website of a client of mine has: IE 50% Netscape 16% Mozilla 10% Safari 9% Konquerer 0.62% (the rest of the traffic is spiders/bots) > Windows 89.4 % > Macintosh 5 % > Unknown 4.5 % > Linux 0.8 % Windows 58% Unknown 15% Mac 12% Linux 0.72% My personal website has: Netscape (compatible) 40% IE 29% Mozilla/Firefox 7% Safari 1% Opera 1% Unknown OS 62% Windows 36% Mac 2% Unix 1% So, it largely depends on who the audience is for your website whether you are seeing 70-80% IE traffic or not. None of the sites I'm involved with are seeing anything close to that. In any event, nobody in his or her right mind designs a website for a particular browser's rendering engine, but instead designs first for web standards, then does what is necessary to make the page render properly in the most widespread browsers. In practical sense, this means design for Mozilla/Firefox/Safari/Opera then add all the tweaks necessary to make it come out right in the three distinct rendering engines of Microsoft's Internet Explorer (IE5.1, IE5.5, IE6.x), all of which are severely broken in regard to standards compliance. It might seem that it would be more sensible to design for IE first, but it's easier to hack for IE than it is to hack IE-compatible HTML to work in standards-compliant browsers. Secondly, IE7 is going to be more standards-compliant (though not compliant enough -- MS has decided not to implement full CSS/CSS2 compliance, sadly), so you'd be boxing yourself into designing for a soon-to-be-obsolete rendering engine. -- David W. Fenton http://dfenton.com David Fenton Associates http://dfenton.com/DFA/ _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
