Michael Kear wrote:
[...]
Now I know that these figures only represent my own audience, and IE
is still the most used browser by quite a long chalk, but it does
signify a shift of quite large proportions in my traffic.
Ever had a quality-check on those figures?
I'm not saying your figures are wrong, but as always when I see such
figures; I wonder how they are retrieved and if the differences in how
UAs engage a site is taken into account.
See: <http://virtuelvis.com/archives/2005/05/statistics-nonsense>
...for more on "statistics".
Had I not taken a decision a couple of years ago to design for
standards first, then to adjust for IE later, i'd be scrambling now
to redo a lot of my sites.
That decision has saved you a lot of work already, so it sure was a good
one.
No longer can I say "well the vast majority of the users have IE and
the rest are basically insignificant." And i suspect the same is
true for a great many web sites owners.
You're probably right, but that "...users have IE..." argument never was
a valid argument anyway. Browser-support shouldn't be based on numbers,
but on each browser's capability.
See: <http://www.gunlaug.no/contents/wd_1_02_02.html>
...for more on "site-specific browser-support".
regards
Georg
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