Yeah, you know what the numbers say. So do I. And yet still, normal
users (those who don't run page loading tests every day) are reporting
that their *perception* (all that matters) is that we're faster than IE.
(Not to mention that some tests show we're faster than IE sometimes
over a modem, which many people still have).
Also, feel free to compare the ratings between Netscape 6.1 and Internet
Explorer 6.0 at download.com. Not that download number has anything to
do with the user rating (since 6.1 has more votes towards its 79-80% --
> 1000 - than IE6 has towards its 70-72%), but in case you come up with
a witty and clever line about IE having "9 million downloads" and
Netscape 6.1 having "100,000" on cnet, you should know that the IE6
includes the numbers from the previous versions of IE, as well as that
the download.com counter for Netscape 6.1 was broken for about the first
week after the release (I'd be glad to send you cnet's e-mail confirming
that).
--Blake
JTK wrote:
>Oddly enough, the world doesn't seem to be waiting for Mozilla.
>Download the competition here:
>http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/default.htm
>
>Since Mozilla was at last count about 4x slower than IE5.5, and has
>gotten slightly slower since then, can somebody please rerun those
>numbers against IE6.0 and see how much worse off we are now? If those
>numbers have already been run, as I suspect they have been, could they
>please be published here?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Gary R. Van Sickle
>
