On Fri, 27 Jul 2001 11:32:11 -0600, Jerry Baker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
somehow managed to type:
>There are many with differing methods of keeping track of visitors. Even
>if all of these different sites, and all of the different stats
>applications they were running, were underestimating Mozilla/NN6 use by
>a factor of 10, that still means use is below 5%.
>
>That makes me curious because use of NN4 remains at around 12 - 15%.
This is to be expected.
The vast majority of those people still using Navigator 4.x are those who:
1. Received it as part of their ISP package, use it because it was what
was given to them, and either do not know how to, or do not know they
can change.
2. Use it because of company policy.
3. Use it because they really, really prefer NN over Internet Explorer,
despite IE5+ being more stable, and rendering modern HTML better.
4. Use it because their machines can't support IE5 or higher.
Those in categories 1 and 2 won't change until someone tells them to, and
nobody's going to recommend a pre-release Mozilla or a mistakenly
reeleased NN6.0 to their users or staff.
Those in category 3 will be very hard to convince to upgrade, having held
out against IE for so long. They probably account for most of the people
who tried NN6 when it was first released, shuddered with horror, and went
back to their browser of choice.
Those in category 4 will not be helped by Mozilla's current memory use or
processor speed requirements.
Charles Miller
