Re: Ditching support for IE4 with Apache-mod_ssl

[JT]

Stats From one of my most active domains...

IE4 still holds 8.58% interesting note is the MS Browsers hold 72.78% of all browsers to this clients site

 

Microsoft Explorer Browsers   Browser Hits % of Total Hits Visits 1 Explorer 5.x 22,941,879 84.83% 1,066,771 2 Explorer 4.x 2,320,995 8.58% 87,349 3 Explorer 6.x 1,671,012 6.17% 63,212 4 Explorer 3.x 105,613 0.39% 14,068 5 Explorer 2.x 833 0% 174 6 Explorer ; x 434 0% 114 7 Explorer 1.x 1,299 0% 112 8 Explorer 90x 513 0% 25 9 Explorer 9.x 206 0% 13 10 Explorer 0.x 52 0% 1 11 Explorer 5 x 2 0% 0 12 Explorer 5Úx 1 0% 0 13 Explorer 5@x 1 0% 0 14 Explorer s)x 1 0% 0 15 Explorer 5dx 1 0% 0 Total For Browsers Above 27,042,842 100% 1,231,839

 

--JT

----- Original Message -----

From: "Ed Kubaitis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2001 11:13 AM

Subject: Re: Ditching support for IE4 with Apache-mod_ssl

-- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> I've noticed recently that Microsoft no longer support any version of IE
> lower than IE5.01 (specifically SP2 with the Q295106 hotfix). As there are
> some serious issues with IE3, like the now expired root certificates, isn't
> now a good time to stop supporting browser sessions with IE4?
>
> I would not be surprised if any future updates to IIS prevent these from
> working, so why should mod_ssl worry about a now unsupported browser that
> creates so many posts to this list?
>
> Obviously I realise that there are many users still using IE4 and below,
> hence this does need some consideration.
>
> What do people think?
>

Too soon to drop IE4 support in my opinion. Here are stats
based on a recent sample of 148,000 different host addresses
visiting a web server here that indicate IE4 is still used by
~5% of IE users and ~4% of all users:

http://www.ews.uiuc.edu/bstats/latest-month.html

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Ed Kubaitis - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
CCSO - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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