1) How appropriate ;) 2) As I already explained, that page you showed is OF NO RELEVANCE since there is no possible way to measure what they are trying to measure, and MOST DEFINITELY, their data DOES NOT represent overall reality since it is of trash source. 3) We really don't need to get into this. MS is counter standards. They do this intentionally to force people to use their garbage knowing that if they gave an in, their monopoly would fall like the house of cards that it is. If they were accepting of standards, they would have dropped their proprietary document formats in favor of ISO 26300. Then you can go and have a look at how standards compliant their web browsers are... standards compliant documents don't render correctly and ms-compliant documents don't render correctly in standards compliant browsers. FACT. You can do your own research if you don't believe me.
On May 28, 1:31 pm, Al Sutton <[email protected]> wrote: > Somebody got out of bed the wrong side didn't they? > > 1) The stats page you mentioned gives a "Browser not supported" message in > IE8, so I'm guessing it's very strongly in favour of open source products. > > 2) Yes, there are two sets of stats on the page I gave, but if you use the > percentages and the total number of clients surveyed (both of which are on > the page), you see the Outlook was the client of 883,857 recipients out of > the two *combined* figures and Yahoo Mail was the client of 706,885, thus > making Outlook the more popular. > > 3) Maybe you'd like to quote the standard you claim Outlook doesn't support > (and please don't say it's non-standard just because Groups can't handle it. > I'm looking for an RFC quote here). The Outlook quoting format is designed to > get around a problem of the "> xxxx" reply format in that some mail gateways > and clients wrap text at 80 characters, and so after a couple of replies you > find that the text is all over the place. > > Now maybe it's time for a nice cup of tea, a scone, and a nice lie down for > you. > > Al. > > --- > > * Written an Android App? - List it athttp://andappstore.com/* > > ====== > Funky Android Limited is registered in England & Wales with the > company number 6741909. The registered head office is Kemp House, > 152-160 City Road, London, EC1V 2NX, UK. > > The views expressed in this email are those of the author and not > necessarily those of Funky Android Limited, it's associates, or it's > subsidiaries. > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of lbcoder > Sent: 28 May 2009 17:22 > To: Android Discuss > Subject: [android-discuss] Re: Al - a favor if you don't mind... > > Just because (a) YOU use it, and (b) some web site you found likes it > does NOT mean that it is ACTUALLY most used, OR that their practices > are right. If you look at > this:https://messaging.its.monash.edu.au/stats/client/ > it paints a very different picture -- one in which thunderbird pretty > much destroys everything else COMBINED. Not that I'm advocating that > statistic over any other. If thunderbird is anything like firefox (as > compared against outlook/ie), then it is steadily growing. Amazing > that Firefox is bigger than the SUM OF ALL version of ie according > tohttp://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp-- you'll note > that browser stats are much easier to gather than email client stats > -- just need to take a look at the logs on a severely high traffic > server, like google. Email users tend to group together and don't > necessarily tend to intermingle making stats VERY difficult to gather. > > Oh, and just so you're aware, that site you referenced has TWO sets of > data, the second one puts YAHOO above outlook. You should also read > the fine print... that as with anyone else looking at email stats, > their data is gathered from RESPONSES TO SPAM (or maybe its SPAMMERS), > but it is some weird group that is not likely to be indicative of > reality. > > In any case, you are posting on a google group. The google software > will crush the quotes in their particular way, so you should conform > to that format and ditch your incompatible craplook. > > > I use Outlook 2007 due to my mail being on an Exchange server. It's a shame > > your quoting extension can't cope with the quoting mechanism used by the > > mail client with the largest market share > > (seehttp://fingerprintapp.com/email-client-stats-All versions of Outlook > > use a similar quoting system), maybe it's worth updating your code to > > handle Outlooks quoting as it's not really an edge case in terms of quoting > > internet emails. > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-discuss?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
