hi, i dont like the argument used my some people that if netscape has 5% of
the market, and your site doesnt work for them you will have a 5% drop in
sales. That assumes that 100% of people that go to your site are buying -
so you would be getting 95% sale rate which is pretty great!
i hear
: Re: SOT: Is the Netscape browser still a consideration?
Hi Howard.
The CSS issue was one of the main reasons that I started this post. I was
working on a site and implemented some design elements using styles that
really enhanced the appearance of the site. I actually did test it out
as a result?
Who cares. Everybody is happy. Life is good. Life is simple again.
Jim
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From: Rey Bango [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2002 9:22 PM
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Nick,
Great
decided that we could do all this fancy design and Flash
and all this other wiz bang stuff doesn't mean that it's necessarily the
right thing to do.
My .02, and sorry for ranting
Mike Alberts
Tue, 19 Feb 2002 22:42:59 -0500
From: Rey Bango [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: SOT: Is the Netscape browser
Yes, I understand the argument is flawed, but the root idea is sound.
You can't place barriers to usability without paying some sort of
penalty. Mike Alberts post is right on with this, imho.
--Matt--
From: list peters [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
hi, i dont like the argument used my some
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2002 12:17 AM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: RE: SOT: Is the Netscape browser still a consideration?
The site I mentioned in my previous e-mail is also an RV site. About the
same traffic. Average age of registered users is 56
for
nobody.
- Matt Small
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From: jon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2002 9:23 AM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: RE: SOT: Is the Netscape browser still a consideration?
We get the same thing from our WebTV users... also a small, but vocal
percentage.
I've also
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Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2002 7:46 AM
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I just had to get in on this one ...
While there really isn't much debating that the browser war is over (which
is as much Netscape's fault for releasing junk
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From: Mike Alberts [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2002 7:46 AM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: Re: SOT: Is the Netscape browser still a consideration?
I just had to get in on this one ...
While there really isn't much debating that the browser war is over
(which
I would like to chime in on this topic...I have several sites that I have to
maintain (I do government work) that I did not write. They were written using
layers and HEAVY on javascript. When Netscape 6 was loaded on many of the new
machines, the sites stopped working. I visited many
: Is the Netscape browser still a consideration?
I would like to chime in on this topic...I have several sites that I have
to
maintain (I do government work) that I did not write. They were written
using
layers and HEAVY on javascript. When Netscape 6 was loaded on many of the
new
machines
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Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2002 10:27 AM
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You are opening a can of worms here I believe, but Netscape has no problem
with Javascript. Especially since Netscape invented Javascript, I imagine
they can do
Most of the time it's not up to the developer anyways. We go by what
the client wants on their site.
If they say they want a flash intro, so be it.
Anyways, I couldn't imagine a web without pictures and flash and dhtml,
it would be like a magazine with nothing but text inside.
It sounds
building), IE's won.
H.
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From: Tom Nunamaker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2002 8:09 PM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: RE: SOT: Is the Netscape browser still a consideration?
We run an RV Classified site with about 40,000 visitors per
For the longest time, I've coded my sites to take into account Netscape
users but with the ever-dwindling numbers of Navigator afficianados and IE's
continued growth, I've been wondering if I should even bother worrying about
whether my sites work with Netscape.
Since this has been one of my
Here's my .02 cents
I'm leaning towards giving more consideration to the Netscape 6.0 above but
I'm not ready to declare Netscape 4.75 dead. I think there's still about 10
percent of the internet users that are using Netscape 4.75. Netscape 6.0 is
coming along real nicely and I've seen
I'm not sure what the general consensus is, but in my opinion, I would
continue to code for Netscape, and also consider Opera too. If everyone
gives up coding for the other browsers, then it's game over, MS will
not only own your personal machines, but the internet too!The other
option of
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2002 10:04 PM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: Re: SOT: Is the Netscape browser still a consideration?
Here's my .02 cents
I'm leaning towards giving more consideration to the Netscape 6.0 above
but
I'm
We have seen a dramtic increase in Netscape users over the last few months,
(with over 2million uniques per month) ..our numbers have jumped from 3-4%
to over 15% ... I would keep the coding going for Netscape!
Paul Giesenhagen
QuillDesign
http://www.quilldesign.com
SiteDirector - Commerce
11:06 PM
Subject: Re: SOT: Is the Netscape browser still a consideration?
I'm not sure what the general consensus is, but in my opinion, I would
continue to code for Netscape, and also consider Opera too. If everyone
gives up coding for the other browsers, then it's game over, MS
Watch your logs.. ( Or the logs of the site you are developing for,
rather ) . That is the biggest tell-tale sign as to what you should be
developing for ( or not ).
The server administrator of one site I developed, a long time ago, told
me that on weekdays, 98% of the hits were from
: Tom Nunamaker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2002 8:09 PM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: RE: SOT: Is the Netscape browser still a consideration?
We run an RV Classified site with about 40,000 visitors per month. The
average age of Rver's is in their early 60's. Believe
: Wednesday, February 20, 2002 12:17 AM
Subject: RE: SOT: Is the Netscape browser still a consideration?
The site I mentioned in my previous e-mail is also an RV site. About the
same traffic. Average age of registered users is 56.
My biggest problem isn't NS users, it's WebTV users. Currently
I am one of those hard core Netscape users.
Really I use it because I don't trust the security of IE/Outlook. I still
use Netscape and Eudora for that reason. The threat of the next big hole
that MS has not yet released a patch for, and me going to some obscure
website that somebody from
Even if the percentage of users for all wacko browsers is just ... say
.. 5%. Are you willing to take a 5% drop in sales for an unknown
duration? Like others I not only still see NN3 users... I'm still
seeing AOL 3 on a site where about 10% of users are on AO-Hell - the
typical site demographic
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