"M�sl Roland" wrote:
> ...
> Look at
>
> http://www.thecounter.com/stats/2000/December/browser.html
>
> After 0.3 days in December, NutScrap 5 still behind
> NutScrap 3 and MSIE 3.
>
> This statistic tells: most NutScrap users boycott the new version
I _do_ agree in Netscape making crappy software, but don't you ever get tired of these
statistics?
How many times a week do you have to make postings about them? Do you get money from
advertizing on the site you are referring to?
I suppose you also buy music based on similar criteria, i.e. those artists selling the
most records must make the best music and those further down the list can't be woth
listening to?
There are various reasons for people sticking with the buggy browsers from Nutscrape:
- Having read too many reports of security flaws in M$ products. Using M$ IE is like
having a car that at the same time cannot be locked and is popular among thieves.
- Using an operating system where M$ IE is unavaliable.
- Using two (or more) operating systems, preferring one common browser that's available
for both.
- Being more familiar/satisfied with Nutscrape's user interface. A feature you lose is
often considered more valuable than one you gain.
- Not encountering problem sites very often. If you get the information you want, why
bother about the web page not being displayed quite as intended?
- Having plenty of memory and a fast CPU (partially compensating for high CPU and
memory
load and memory leaks).
- Having experienced previous versions of M$ IE crashing not only itself, but Windows
as
well. (This isn't much of a problem for IE 5 or 5.5, but may have made some users more
forgiving about a program that only crashes itself - in most cases.)
- Most surfers are not web designers, and don't care about the extra effort necessary
to
make a web page viewable in Netscape - as long as the web designer has taken this
effort.
By the way - the newsgroups alt.netscape.buggy-products and alt.netscape.sucks are
meant
for harassing Netscape (and maybe getting some help with their browsers?), not for
promoting Micro$oft...
Since you're obviously not using Nutscrape yourself, I suppose that you either must be
working for Micro$oft or that you're a frustrated web designer.
