Randall Parker wrote:
>On Thu, 12 Jul 2001 19:41:12 -0400 esteemed RV did hold forth thusly:
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>> That is a ridiculous idea. Most people will stick with what is more or
>>most familiar to them irrespective of the product, therefore, since most
>>people have become accustomed to IE, they will stick with it.
>>
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>Well, the survey taken a week after the install could ask people if they
>tried Moz and only count the reactions of those who tried it.
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You still don't get it. If your idea is followed as criteroia for Moz
1.0, it will never be releases. i would suggest that you review the
concept of *bias of ascertainment* in a statistics textbook.
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>If everyone is so wedded to IE that they won't change then that says that its
>not worth trying to make a different Win32 browser. However, I suspect that
>is not the case and that Moz can be made sufficiently attractive to some
>portion of the current group of IE users.
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That is not the point. What the developers are trying to get is an idea
of criteria that should be met before Moz 1.0 gets released. You are
suggesting that 1.0 is done when a percentage of people like it. That is
a flawed concept. It works the other way around.
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>Another approach would be to install Moz and IE on machines that are for new
>users and then measure what percentage of users decide they prefer Moz. That
>way the IE familiarity bias is avoided. This could be done at schools or
>other settings where new PC users are trained.
>
Again, people who are used to IE interface will be baised for IE because
thay can do things the way they are used to. They don't have to look for
things and functions in different menus. People think that producing a
stable browser that can display pages correctly will make people switch
browsers. I think that's wishful thinking. People will switch if they
find other things in the browser that are unique to it and attractive. I
think skins/themes could be just that. Have you noticed hoe many skins
there are for Winamp, many of them so esoteric I don't understand how
some "kids" used them .. yet they do. Personalizing thne browser
inteface could be the key to a more unique browser. I have students that
go an check Netscape site looking to see if the Toy Factory skin is
available already.
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