Actually, even on a site I run that is targeted at young mothers, still a massive portion of the reported browsers by Google Analytics are Firefox (and by massive I mean greater than 20%). Ignoring Firefox is even more stupid than ignoring IE6, since Firefox pretty closely follows web standards and your site being utterly broken in Firefox is probably indicative of your disregard for the standards.
On Jul 16, 11:02 am, Kirby <ki...@wallaceinfo.com> wrote: > Seriously, I'm NOT complaining. I made a simple suggestion. What > brought on the complaining was the essentially "go f*ck yerself" reply > that I got back. > > My website has not been updated in AGES. It's not designed for > firefox because, from a purely business aspect, I really don't care > about support for FF. I spend my time doing other people's sites. > Most of them are not designed for firefox because outside the "geek > zone", no one uses it. That whole "nearly half" number being floated > around falls to pieces when you separate the wheat from the chaff: > take that same poll, exclusing hackers, hobbiests, enthusiasts and > linux zealots, and FF hardly makes a blip on the radar screen. Take > that same poll and include only Corporate and Industrial users, and > you find that Corporate America is decidedly IE and will be for a long > time. And that's where I work. Corporate Intranets. That means IE. > > And, yeah, I do agree that changing boats after leaving the shore is > risky. I'm OK with that. I'm just asking "Is it ok with you that > 99% of the people who look at your product are going to think > 'ROACH'?" If so, then Bob's yer uncle, and have a good time. But one > way or another, ROACH is exactly what 99 out of 100 people are going > think the instant they see your product. If you're OK with that, then > more power to ya. > > And, yes. I am an information architech. (uhhhh. programmer+) > > I'd wager that I've written more code and implemented more systems > than everyone else in this thread combined. And I am NOT kidding. > > Oh,... and have a nice day. ;-) > > On Jul 1, 3:26 pm, Kara Rawson <karacu...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > @ Mr. kirby > > > you are an idiot. > > > stop complain and being rude to people who volunteer there time. > > > you should spend more time debugging your crappy looking website, > > >www.wallaceinfo.com > > > which doesn't work in FF. > > > on a side note im a professional graphic designer / artist and engineer. > > > i love the FB logo, i think its mad cute. > > > @kirby, i betcha didn't know that it also does more damage to your brand > > by changing it out after it has beem saturated in the market. secondly > > why does it matter for something that doesn't get sold. You should > > download the source and rebrand it with some fancy graphics you think > > are kewl, and sell it. See how that works out for yea. prolly not well, > > as no one cares what the logo looks like. to me and prolly 99.9 of other > > engineers its merely a button to push when you wanna debug a website. > > > i actually take a little offense to you calling yoruself a information > > systems archtect. do you even know what that is or what they do? > > > kara --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Firebug" group. To post to this group, send email to firebug@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to firebug+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/firebug?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
