On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 10:27 AM, Nadav Har'El <[email protected]>wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 23, 2010, Oron Peled wrote about "Re: [Haifux] [HAIFUX > Workshop] The Web Rant Workshop": > > E.g: the COO may get really pissed off to find that with all the > > money thrown at the company website, the result cause ~20% of potential > > visitor to stay out. > > But can you honestly tell him that? > > The sad truth is so many Israeli sites don't work properly in Firefox, that > many people have become used to working with two browsers: Normally they > use Firefox, or their iPhone, or whatever, but when they want to user their > bank's site and it doesn't work, they go to their Windows computer, and run > IE specifically for that. Since 99% of the users (not 80%) have Windows and > IE, only 1%, not 20%, are shut out. The other 19% may be slightly annoyed, > but not much more. > > Your argument might better apply to sites whose business case especially > depends on non-IE browsers - e.g., sites intended for mobile users who use > iPhone or android or opera or whatever, not IE. But I assume that these > sort of sites already check that they work on their intended client > machines... > > There is another market share, the fast "trend adopting" - If few years ago it was 15-25 % geeks, today it is students/Women (lost the research)/High Tech/Buzz people : Just take a look on the IPhone owners / netbook owners, do you really wish to loose around 40% of your potential market share ?! > -- > Nadav Har'El | Sunday, Apr 25 2010, 11 Iyyar > 5770 > [email protected] > |----------------------------------------- > Phone +972-523-790466, ICQ 13349191 |Bank, n: a place that will lend you > money > http://nadav.harel.org.il |if you can prove that you don't need > it. > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-il mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il > -- -- -- Boris Shtrasman ------------ |Gnu/Linux Software developer | | IM : [email protected] | | URL : myrtfm.blogspot.com| _______________________________
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