On Mon, 01 Oct 2001 11:06:07 -0500, Jay Garcia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>The spread is more like 80/20 and diminishing for MS/IE. I was sysadmin >for an 8,000 seat corporate network that switched to Communicator >several years ago mainly because IE/OE was a virus magnet that we >couldn't afford to use any longer. Last I saw, the market share was INcreasing for IE, not decreasing. I remember when Netscape was THE standard, and IE was a little competitor. Now, well over 60% of the visitors to my piddly little personal homepage are using IE, and from what I've seen, sites that get a more significant amount of traffic see the same increase. And where I work (Eastman Kodak), one of the platforms that is spreading around is an NT4 terminal server with basically dumb terminal clients (not for personal workstations), and the company recently deleted Netscape from the server. Why? Apparently Netscape doesn't play nice on a server based network system, and not only screws itself up, but somehow screws things up for IE, too (I don't know the details). On a more individual basis, I know a lot of people who have switched to IE in recent years because it's more stable and more compatible with the websites out there. Personally, I've stuck with Netscape (and am trying to migrate to Mozilla, but its incompatibilities keep tossing roadblocks in my way) more because I prefer its interface and don't care for MS than any other reason. I've used IE enough to know that it's pretty much undeniably a more well produced web browser at this point, even if I do still refuse to use it. :) >buyers ??? Follow THE standards, program for the 'customer' and NOT the >programmer's ego. I agree. Unfortunately, that's not the state the web is in right now, and ignoring non-compliant pages that load properly in BOTH Netscape and IE that Mozilla chokes on or renders improperly isn't going to help make it become more widely used, or a more viable option as a person's primary (much less only) web browser. Erik Harris eharris1@rocheste$.$$.com http://w3.to/erik ICQ: 2610172 Chinese Martial Arts Assoc @ Cornell: http://w3.to/CMAAC/ To avoid Spam-bots, my address at the top is INCORRECT. Change each dollar sign to an "r".
