" I went to my Dads house the other day (upper management type), to my surprise he was running firefox,"
Ha! That's funny, same happened with my old man. He called me up and asked, "whats this about firefox?", so he's using it now. As for our corporate sites we're now seeing ~10% mozilla on our merchant portal and ~19% on our public site. -Stace -----Original Message----- From: Rob [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, December 05, 2004 12:30 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: SOT: Browser Stats (stirring the pot) On Sat, 4 Dec 2004 21:17:51 -0500, Dave Watts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What makes you think the masses will ever get it? Most people don't just > download and install software, period. God I wish that were true... I can't tell you how many people have called me for help (way non-techy), and I get there to find they have installed Kazaa or some stupid toolbar programs complete with 57 spyware programs. >(Not counting all the ActiveX junk that people install without knowing what they're doing.) Oh lets not even get started ;) >I use Mozilla and > like it, but even most developers I know still use IE because that's what's > on their computer. I went to my Dads house the other day (upper management type), to my surprise he was running firefox, and I didn't even tell him too. Every developer I know who runs windows uses firefox (linux and mac users too), but most of the sites they work on are under the old "make it work with IE only" directive from the uppers - so they run IE while working. I have found that if you follow the trend of what the geeks and developers are doing you can see what the non-techies will be doing soon. If not only for the simple fact non-techs ask for our opinion all the time and have us work on their systems. I personally have gotten at least 13 people to use firefox and dump IE (bit OT: 3 people to switch to Macs, and 2 guys to switch to Linux as their workstation too) To find out who broke the law - follow the money. To find out where technology is going - follow the geeks. -- ~The cfml plug-in for eclipse~ http://cfeclipse.tigris.org ~open source xslt IDE~ http://treebeard.sourceforge.net ~open source XML database~ http://ashpool.sourceforge.net ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Special thanks to the CF Community Suite Gold Sponsor - CFHosting.net http://www.cfhosting.net Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:186328 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
