Hi Phil, Sadly, no, it's not a typo. For some reason, known only to our IT department, they got locked into a vendor contract on some mission critical software where the vendor has only recently certified IE7 compatibility. The vendor *has not* certified their product with IE8, so we can't move to that. The same software does not work on any other browser like FF, Safari, or Opera. I assume they have some activeX components in there they they don't know how to port to Javascript. It is not something that we (the web team. we are not part of IT) are happy about, but our IT department doesn't listen to us web people.
Lucien. On 12 June 2010 17:28, Phil Archer <ph...@w3.org> wrote: > Thanks everyone for these interesting stats - depressing as they are. > > Lucien - I assume it's not a typo when you say your IT department is now > rolling out IE7. I'm curious to know the rationale behind that cf. going > straight to IE8. If they're doing all the testing to ensure that IE7 is safe > from a company point of view, why not go for the current version? What am I > missing? > > Thanks > > Phil. > > -- > > > Phil Archer > W3C Mobile Web Initiative > http://www.w3.org/Mobile > > http://philarcher.org > @philarcher1 > > nedlud wrote: > >> Our site is a large health care site. Of the ~250000 visitors in the last >> month, Google says the break down by browser is... >> >> Internet Explorer 69.44% >> Firefox 15.98% >> Safari 9.32% >> Chrome 4.20% >> >> And of the IE traffic, we get... >> >> IE 8.0 37.90% >> IE 7.0 32.87% >> IE 6.0 29.23% >> >> And that is only our external traffic. Our intranet traffic is a different >> story since IE6 is still our "official" browser, although our IT >> department >> has finally started rolling our IE7 as of this week. >> >> So for us, IE 6 can't be ignored, as much as we would like to. >> >> Lucien. >> >> >> On 11 June 2010 23:17, Duncan Hill <dun...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> On Fri, 11 Jun 2010 12:32:03 +0100, Foskett, Mike < >>> mike.fosk...@uk.tesco.com> wrote: >>> >>> Hi all, >>> >>>> Ref "Links for light reading" article: >>>> http://mashable.com/2010/06/01/ie6-below-5-percent/ >>>> >>>> Which basically states IEv6 has dropped below the 5% threshold across >>>> USA >>>> and Europe. >>>> >>>> Nice figures, the stats were produced for May 2010, and calculated for >>>> 15 >>>> >>> Billion page views. >>> The quoted 4.7% using IE 6 therefore still amounts to around 70 Million >>> page views during May 2010. >>> (that's the entire population of the UK, and then some) >>> >>> ..... dead? >>> >>> Duncan >>> >>> >>> >>> ******************************************************************* >>> List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm >>> Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm >>> Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org >>> ******************************************************************* >>> >>> >>> >> >> ******************************************************************* >> List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm >> Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm >> Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org >> ******************************************************************* >> > > > > > ******************************************************************* > List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm > Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm > Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org > ******************************************************************* > > ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org *******************************************************************
