But you can go to any store and pick up a free cd or 3, Or order an upgrade cd for free from AOL. The reason people are still using those older browsers is because they haven't upgraded their IE. When AOL moves to v8.0 that won't be an option.
>While not discounting the need to develop for it, I would also submit that >very few users will be jumping to upgrade to 8.0. As that article and others >state, *most* AOL users are still using older browsers, namely 4.0 and 5.0. >And seeing as most of those users are on dial-up connections and the upgrade >file size is enormous, I don't think the existing 35 million users will be >yelling at us any time soon. Also, AOL's membership growth has slowed >considerably over the past year and is still slowing, so the amount of new >AOL users that this will effect will also be small. Remember, 8.0 isn't even >slated to be released until the fall at the earliest, so membership growth >could be even slower with the hard pushes by other vendors (namely, MSN). > >Again, just my opinion. We should always try and develop for the broadest >audience we can, but I'm not nervous about the switch either. > >Regards, >Dave. ______________________________________________________________________ Dedicated Windows 2000 Server PIII 800 / 256 MB RAM / 40 GB HD / 20 GB MO/XFER Instant Activation � $99/Month � Free Setup http://www.pennyhost.com/redirect.cfm?adcode=coldfusiona FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
