On Sat, Mar 16, 2002 at 12:42:44PM +0900, Keith Addison wrote: > >there is so little life outside of IE, it's just not worth the extra > >development time testing. 98 % of all web traffic among my many customers is > >some form of IE. > > > > > >Steve Spence > >Subscribe to the Renewable Energy Newsletter: > >http://www.webconx.com/subscribe.htm > > I think non-Explorer browsers are certainly worth covering. At > Journey to Forever, with about 120,000 hits a month, pretty much > worldwide, we get a bit more than 75% Explorer, then everything else. > Netscape's the main problem with html, not with Netscape 6 so much, > but 6 is a small minority, less than the others - 4, 4.5, 4.6, 4.7, > are more popular. Netscape 4.7 is the most popular, at 7% - even > Netscape 3 gets nearly 4%, LOL, that's 4200 hits a month (more than > Netscape 6). I can't test for it, it crashes on a G4 running OS 9.1, > but I'd not want to be excluding it. People with primitive browsers > and primitive gear are important to us - Third World people maybe, > local groups. > > Best > > Keith >
Right -- the point is, do you want to communicate or not? If so, then you take the extra time to make sure that it works with at least Netscape 4.x, When I hit a commercial website that doesn't work right, I might or might not take the time to tell the webmaster about it, but I'm sure not going to buy anything from them if they're too clueless to put up a website properly. And especially if I get an arrogant answer like "everybody uses IE so who cares?" -- which often enough is exactly the answer. -- Harmon Seaver CyberShamanix http://www.cybershamanix.com ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> FREE COLLEGE MONEY CLICK HERE to search 600,000 scholarships! http://us.click.yahoo.com/iZp8OC/4m7CAA/ySSFAA/FGYolB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Please do NOT send "unsubscribe" messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/