Mike Meyer a écrit : > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alex Martelli) writes: > >>Maybe that's the key difference between the mindset of a >>mathematician and that of an engineer -- I consider reaching over >>95% of visitors to be _quite good indeed_, > > > Oh? So you'd consider an SMTP/IMAP/POP/DNS/NFS/etc server that > rejected 5% of the systems connecting to be _quite good indeed_? I > think I'm glad that the internet wasn't built by people who agreed > with that. > > If you know what you're doing, you can have the best of both worlds > for a lot of web applications. Yes, it won't be as rich or functional > for the five percent who worry about security (or whatever), but it'll > still work. And yes, you can't do it for every application. For those, > anyone vaguely competent will add a warning. > > What surprises me is that marketing types will accept turning away - > what's the current internet user base? 200 million? - 10 million > potential customers without a complaint. Or maybe they just don't get > told that that's what's going on. > > <mike
Last time I checked, it was only 60% of the users with Javascript enabled. Not sure about the current ratio but with the various locked down IE installs it doesn't surprise me too much. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list