Francis Hemsher wrote: >Hi Ricard, >As a long-time web developer, trying to make cross-browser stuff >work, therefore initially designing to the lowest common >denominator, had been a difficult journey. Happily, a few years ago, >I abandoned AOL and Apple's lag in picking up IE's capablities. And, >also, the bleeding hearts of Netscape, who most times confused the >issue, and always fell flat on their face whenever they issued a new >browser version. >Let's face reality, Firefox is just another temporary blip on the >scope of confusing web development. After all, do you really believe >that MS will include Firefox in their future Windows updates? >Sure, if you are just a web browsing type of a viewer, then it >probably just dandy. But if you want to develop sites that have >serious substance, then you must base your design on the resident >capablities of the IE browser. >Francis > > > > >--- In [email protected], "richard_gnyla" ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>I have in the last few days been reading a lot about the upcoming >>Firefox with native SVG out in July. >> >>What i have found interesting is the several sites that are >> >> >dedicated > > >>to Firefox and also some of the news floating about. >> >>Since Firefox was realeased in November there have been over 61 >>million downloads taking 5% share from IE and continually growing, >> >> >AOL > > >>is also basing its next browser on Firefox. There is a download >>counter on www.spreadfirefox.com >> >>More information on www.spreadfirefox.com - an open source >> >> >marketing > > >>site where the community gets together to help get Firefox more >> >> >popular. > > >>If Firefox continues at this rate then can Adobe / Macromedia >> >> >really > > >>ignore SVG if they want to go up against M$ in the vector wars? >> >>According to statistics, Firefox has 22% of browser market in >> >> >Germany. > > >>Richard >> >> > >Firefox a blip on the market, are you really going to ignore these numbers as >shown on this map http://www.spreadfirefox.com/?q=node/view/15888 > > With these numbers going up i think its important to make software work for both browsers.
Im not saying Firefox will overtake IE but can you really ignore this market. I develop software ideas and one of our clients will only use our software if it will work with Firefox, the company is global and the contract could be worth large if we are succesful. Richard > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ----- To unsubscribe send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -or- visit http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers and click "edit my membership" ---- Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
