--- On Wed, 8/20/08, Lesley Binks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> According to these statistics 
> http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp 
> Firefox is used by 
> about 42% of the population with IE7 and IE6 combined
> making up 51.7% of 
> usage with IE7 just under 27%. I think these stats might
> only refer to 
> those that access that site.  Maybe FF is the predominant
> browser 
> amongst web folk?

I think those stats are very much skewed to the audience: web 'professionals' 
(I hate to use that term since I've found much on w3schools is really aimed at 
amateurs). I do some work for a much more general-purpose audience, and while 
the overall traffic is relatively low, the browser ratios are more like IE 77%, 
FF 17%, Safari 4%, Opera < 1%. It pains me to say it, but Firefox is still 
really a minority browser.

I do, however, wholeheartedly agree with the suggested approach: develop in a 
good (i.e. non-IE) browser first, to spec., then go and fix for the parts of 
the spec. that fail in IE.

- Bobby


      
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