I got into the PC game in 1985. At the time, (on the Intel side) everyone either bought IBM or bought a clone although some bought from a new company called Compaq. Almost every machine went out the door with a copy of WordPerfect and/or Lotus 123. These were the ONLY applications in their respective fields. I might be mistaken but I seem to recall WordPerfect charging a 'premium' for support, mainly because they could.
Nobody had heard of Dell, Microsoft couldn't give Word away, and few if anyone knew they had a product called Excel. Around 1996 I remember supporting Tango 1.5 customers who were running into problems caused by people hitting the sites they were developing who were using this 'new' Internet Explorer browser. Many just gave up and said that they would not worry about the problems from this browser because there were so few people using it. Hmmmm... And correct me if I'm wrong but aren't many of the 'problems' associated with current versions of Netscape typically the work of sloppy coding that Netscape gets picky about but that IE just lets slip through? I hate the idea of a surcharge being placed on coding for a 'different' browser. What will be next? A surcharge for developing for users who 'Think Different'? Just my 2 cents, Steve Smith Skadt Information Solutions Office: (519) 624-4388 GTA: (416) 606-3885 Fax: (519) 624-3353 Cell: (416) 606-3885 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.skadt.com -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of James Macfarlane Sent: June 14, 2002 10:37 AM To: Multiple recipients of list witango-talk Subject: RE: Witango-Talk: IE browser share now 93% in 2002 (Off topic news) I have a retail site with over 600,000 visitors a month. The stats are about the same. We're thinking on a surcharge for Netscape compatibility on projects. 90% of the debugging time is taken up by Netscape rendering issues. If satisfying 7% of your client base is important, then pay up. ....now if Microsoft would only make IE available as a plug-in for Netscape the problem would be solved (grin). - James -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Garth Penglase Sent: Thursday, June 13, 2002 10:46 PM To: Multiple recipients of list witango-talk Subject: Re: Witango-Talk: IE browser share now 93% in 2002 (Off topic news) I would say that to use those statistic to prove that you need only code for IE is dangerous, as there is a much higher showing, right across the board, of existing NS browsers and Other browser users, on the web sites that I control. And nothing stays the same for too long in tech anyway. Remember different sources give different statistic on this, and the stats are be based on different questions (ie don't believe to much what you read from one source). Believe me, it'd make life a lot easier if there was only one browser to code for. Garth ________________________________________________________________________ TO UNSUBSCRIBE: send a plain text/US ASCII email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe witango-talk in the message body ________________________________________________________________________ TO UNSUBSCRIBE: send a plain text/US ASCII email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe witango-talk in the message body
