A few years ago I did a site for an encyclopaedia - their main outlet
was schools, so their web stats made interesting reading - mostly IE6/PC
or OS9 Mac with IE5.1.
Another interesting note was that there were far more legacy browsers
than usual - IE4 and NN4 each outnumbered all the newer variants (NN6,
NN7, Opera, Mozilla) by a factor of 10... for this reason we decided to
cover IE4 / NS4 etc (DO'H!)
Last of all, I also have to say I know of a few non-techie OSX users who
still like to use IE - I know it's sick, but they've used it since it
was 'cool', and still like it!
Ken
Nick Lazar wrote:
Out of interest, does anyone know how many OS 9 users are still out
there?
Nick.
On 2 Aug 2006, at 10:55, Nick Gleitzman wrote:
Steve Green wrote:
One reason for continuing to support IE5/Mac is that OS9 users can't
upgrade
to anything better.
Of course they can upgrade - to OSX. OS9 itself is, if not officially
obsolete, shall we say deprecated? Macs haven't been made to boot
into 9 for some time now. OSX *will* run on most Macs (albeit slowly)
unless they're *really* old and underpowered...
Reality check: it's 2001. The world moves on, and I think that
delivering a typographically styled but layout deficient version of a
site (with a polite explanation of why the presentation is limited)
to users of obsolete browsers is far better than giving them a site
that's broken, especially if it's preventing usability. It can only
help to weed these browseers out of the scene, eventually - and then
we won't have to worry about them at all!
N
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