> Also, IE6 (which is in public beta) seems a bit of a yawn. Have we
> taken "browsers" as far as they can go?
The company I work for has a central statistics tracking system that
logs stats from about 75 very "average" sites and the stats are as
follows:
MSIE 5.x 75.79%
MSIE 4.x 13.67%
Netscape 4.x 9.28%
MSIE 3.x 0.44%
Netscape 3.x 0.36%
Netscape 5.x 0.22%
MSIE 6.x 0.15%
other 0.09%
Netscape 6.x 0.01%
BTW, that doesn't seem to add up to 100% but that's caused by rounding
errors.
Note that IE 6 that was released as beta only last week is already ahead
of Netscape 6.x's final version, which is only used by 0.01%. Netscape 5.x
is just slightly ahead of IE 6. I assume Netscape 5.x means "Mozilla"...
Someone who knows more about the user agent string probably can explain
this. It is also interesting to note that both IE3 and NS3 are ahead of
BOTH Netscape 5.x and 6.x combined.
BTW, when I say "average", I really mean average. There are a couple of
news-type of sites, several company homepages by companies in a wide range
of industries, a couple of female-mostly oriented sites (magazines about
babies etc.), a couple of very high profile tech related sites (well-known
electronics makers), a large tv station, two airlines, a couple of
government sites etc.
Peppe
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