On 03/14/2002 3:35 AM, Bundy wrote: > > Not to a lot of webmasters. What matters is if the page looks good on MS > Explorer while using Front Page to compose it. Heck, mozilla.org isn't > totally compliant. Why waste time (which is money) trying to get your > website to work for a small minority of web surfers? Drudge could very > easily fix the site by getting rid of the height tag on those two tables > that don't load right and make no sense to the outlook of his page. But > then again, since they are compliant, why should he? > >
Well, let's give you a little example. I was webmaster for a mail order computer company whose income from 'just' the web site was a little over 6 million dollars per MONTH. Now, take into consideration today's browser ratio of Communicator ~10% to IE's ~90%. What is 10% of 6 million ?? ummm, $600,000 in potential lost income because Communicator users are shut out ?? !!! The exact numbers and ratio are a little different in reality but even aa high as a 10% margin of error still leaves you with astounding losses. And besides, this was in 1995 to 1999 when the ratio was quite a bit in Communicator's favor. Bottom line is, the Webmaster that does not consider cross-browser compatibility and standards compliance is shooting him/herself in the foot and will soon be in the "bread line". The actual numbers can be skewed a bit by the users that can't get in with Communicator will try IE of course. But still, the potential loss in business is real !! -- Jay Garcia - Netscape Champion Novell MCNE-5/CNI-Networking Technologies-OSI UFAQ - http://www.UFAQ.org
