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 -----
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.
