Brett:
> The browser share statistics were interesting and powerful (interestingly
>  the statistics seem to encouraging more sites to be unreadable in 
Netscape).
>  That said though, I reject (working within my limited webpage capability)
>  locking off access to non-IE users to codeconscious.com for obvious 
reasons!
>  It will be interesting to see how non-pc or non-Windows based browsers
>  affect those statistics in the years to come.

Today's statistics may be tomorrow's history -- there's a strong rumour that 
AOL will revert to bundling Netscape/Mozilla in a future release -- 
unleashing tens of millions of users who'd expect sites to still work for 
them.

http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=02/03/08/1957252&mode=thread 

It makes sense -- why own Netscape and bundle Microsoft?

The moral I draw is the same as yours --- to stick to the standards not the 
vendor's extensions. I do most of my browsing with Opera and will only fire 
up IE or NN/MZ on a site that chokes on Opera if it really looks worth my 
while.

I guess I'm with Tim Berners-Lee when he says "The power of the Web is in its 
universality" --  why dilute that power by restricting access?

Sunanda.
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