Bobby Jack wrote: > --- 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
Well, I did wonder about those stats and they may well be skewed in favour of web folk - even if they are amateurs. Back in the late 90s - early 2000's the argument was pretty much the same ... IE is the predominant browser so design for that mostly. However then the alternative browser usage was put at about 5% with 95% being IE. The question Firefox and Opera supporters posed then was, can you or your clients afford to ignore 5% of your market? So I guess that question can now be updated to can you or your clients afford to ignore 23% of your market? From direct experience I was working on Solaris machines with Netscape and had Linux dual booting with NT way back then before going completely Linux for a few years. At that time, I tended to avoid sites that didn't display on the Linux and Solaris machines - and some of them were really bad. I still get annoyed when I find sites that fail in FF. Not, mercifully, that there are so many these days. Regards Lesley ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
