Re: UKNM: just one last rant on... browser compatibility - that old chestnut

[Greg Plumbly]

> This sort of thing is just sloppy... especially when that 16% (I've seen

> slightly higher figures than that for average usage, running at a little over 20%) are all

> potential customers, who won't come back if they have to scan a page of code before getting to the

> content...

>

> Ahhhh, feel better now... After a week of trying to find a trick to align

> curves across frames in NS3, seeing this boiled my blood... I'll go back into my darkened room now...


Weren't the Heavens Gate mass suicide people web designers? ;)


Im surprised its as high as 20% even for ukcentric sites. Ive just picked up

figures from http://www.statmarket.com/SM?c=Browsers


MSIE 4.x     40.34%

MSIE 5.x     32.30%

Netscape 4.x 20.18%

MSIE 3.x      2.89%

Netscape 3.x  2.36%

WebTV         1.07%

Netscape 5.x  0.31%

MSIE 0.x      0.23%

MSIE 2.x      0.19%

Netscape 2.x  0.01%


I only have access to one ukcentric site log and Netscape 3 users account

for around 5%


Greg 

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