On Thu, 2011-04-14 at 14:02 +0000, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Thu, 14 Apr 2011 19:15:05 +1000, Chris Angelico wrote: > > > 4) Assumes people aren't deliberately fiddling the figures. Yeah, that > > would be correct. We're in the realm of conspiracy theories here... does > > anyone seriously think that browser stats are THAT important that they'd > > go to multiple web servers with deceitful hits? > > Back in the day, not that many years ago, when it looked like Internet > Explorer would never dip below 90% market share and web developers coded > for IE quirks instead of standards as a matter of course, I used to > fantasize of writing a Windows virus that (apart from propagating) did > nothing but change the user-agent string on IE. It would have been > awesome to witness the consternation among web developers. > > But thanks to the EU doing what the US DOJ refused to do, and the grass- > roots popularity of Firefox (plus a fewer well-known even if not often > used browsers like Safari and Opera), and then Google's scarily efficient > way they can capture hearts and minds on the Internet, IE's market share > has been whittled away to the point that there are places in the world > where IE is a minority browser. A large minority, it is true, but still a > minority. > > Now, if only we could convince web users that having your browser execute > untrusted code downloaded from the Internet is not such a good idea, > supposed sandbox or not. What the world needs is a virus that silently > removes Javascript and Flash from browsers... > > > > -- > Steven
Also, why aren't Opera and Google criticized for their proprietary browsers (Chrome is essentially a proprietary front-end)? Is it because their browsers follow web standards, or is it because we have demonized Microsoft? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
