On 19 Oct 2002 15:20:39 +1000, Richard Neal wrote: >> Remember that Internet Explorer has accounted for over 90% of browsers in >> some studies. So, whilst that may mean they could be ruling out 10% of their >> potential customers, I don't think that the extra expense to support or >> develop (and train people to support and develop) for those platforms would >> be very attractive to them. >> >Actually that figure is under challenge now because many users set their >alternate browsers to say they are IE 5.0 even though they aren't.
when I 1st started analyzing web logs, several years ago, we were getting roughyl 50/50 IE/N these days, sadly, N doesn't rate just looking at my ski club site; Top 15 of 83 Total User Agents # Hits User Agent 1 35586 94.50% MSIE 2 17197 45.67% Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; ( t w e e 3 5639 14.97% Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows 98; Win 9x 4.90)" 4 2913 7.74% Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows 95)" 5 1899 5.04% Mozilla 6 1425 3.78% Mozilla/3.01 (compatible;)" 7 1198 3.18% Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows 98)" 8 830 2.20% Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)" 9 818 2.17% Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 4.0)" 10 800 2.12% Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.01; Windows NT 5.0)" 11 657 1.74% Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows 98; Win 9x 4.90)" 12 635 1.69% Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 5.0)" 13 558 1.48% Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows 98)" 14 398 1.06% Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 4.0; Suncorp Me 15 329 0.87% Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.01; Windows 95)" my ski users wouldd't have a clue what's a user agent, let alone, how to change it -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
