When Mozilla 1.0 is released, it will be included in most of the linux
distros as the default browser. So supporting NS 6/Mozilla is a
given. No need in arguing over has the most market share. Mozilla,
Netscape 6, IE 5/6, are all next-generation browsers that actually
support dhtml. Find another browser that supports DHTML then it can
be adapted to the DynAPI. But as far as I know IE 4 and NS 4 are the
only others (No, not opera or Konquerer).
--
Robert Rainwater
On 3/8/2001, 10:23:22 PM EST, Raymond wrote about "[Dynapi-Dev] Browser Language
Support":
> In a purely utopian society I would agree with "no matter how small the number of
>people that use that browser, it is used". In reality there are currently 71
>different browsers in use today by
> "some # of people". There are 10 browsers that capture .25% marketshare or more.
>10 being defined as "named browsers", exclusive of version within a named category
>(we'll not go that deep gets
> real ugly fast).
> Top Browsers (greater then .20% marketshare)
> 1) IE (approximately 86% marketshare)
> 2) NS4 (approximately 9% marketshare)
> Of the top 10 browsers the following currently "exceed" NS6 in total market
>penetration and use:
> 3) Opera 3.42%
> 4) AvantGo 3.2 1.50%
> 5) 4.72 (X11) 1.46%
> 6) Powermarks - 3.5 1.29%
> 7) Lynx 0.74%
> 8) IBrowse 0.74%
> 9) Science Traveler IX 0.37%
> 10) NS6 0.26%
> 11) Konqueror 2.1 0.24%
> Of all these the only ones that gets refernced at all in this group is Opera and
>Konqueror (by one individual). The only reason NS6 gets any attention it all is due
>to residual effects of the
> browser wars. During them we supported both, hence the propensity to still support
>it. Went do you let the thing go, it drowned 2 years ago?
> (emote prepares to duck) I guess we need to build support for all these browsers
>then, at least ones greater then .26% penetration
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2001 6:58 PM
> Subject: Re: [Dynapi-Dev] Browser Language Support
> >>They all tried NS6 and went back to NS4.
> Not true, Not true. I tried NS 6.0 and because the setup was buggy I was
> forced to return to using ns 4 and ms 5. When it comes down to it, no
> browser has the ability to provide complete standards support. If you take a
> look at the date when the w3c approves a standard and the date at which a
> browser supports it you would find that no browser maker, ms, ns, or opera
> appears to be really concerned about providing website developers or web
> surfers with a consistent and dependable browser.
> I have recently downloaded NS6.01 and have begun to ensure that sites that
> build will support it. No matter how small the number of people are that use
> the browser, it is used. And that is what is important.
_______________________________________________
Dynapi-Dev mailing list
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dynapi-dev
