I agree as well as the accessibility and disabilities. and I really miss the serving up of just plain text pages. I get stats also from AWATS from my 7 domains from 1996 so I have a fair idea what the numbers are. they seem to support most of the reports I see
Ryan Foster sent the following on 10/20/2009 2:30 PM: > Be careful just quoting statistics without context. Numbers can tell > any story you want them too if you approach them from the right angle. > W3 Schools browser stats are a bit biased since their visitors are > generally more tech savvy than the average user. There are other > numbers that tell a different story: > > http://www.w3counter.com/globalstats.php > http://gs.statcounter.com/ > http://www.thecounter.com/stats/2009/March/browser.php > http://marketshare.hitslink.com/browser-market-share.aspx?qprid=0 > > I stand by my original statement. Saying you don't want to support IE7 > is just a arbitrary as saying "I don't want to serve customers that wear > blue shirts", or "I don't want to serve customers like to watch > football"... > > Telling customers to not use IE7 is just as bad as what some developer's > used to do 10 years ago when they would put statements on their websites > saying things like "This site is best viewed using Internet Explorer > with a 1024x768 screen resolution". > > Ryan Foster > HotWax Media > 801.671.0769 > [email protected] > > > > > On Oct 20, 2009, at 2:53 PM, BJ Freeman wrote: > >> here is some statistics. >> http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp >> >> >> aswath narayana sent the following on 10/20/2009 2:04 AM: >>> [email protected] >>> >>> Thanks for all the responses. >>> I was thinking that it could be done in a Filter, maybe use the >>> ContextFilter. Hopefully it is a good place to do the check. >>> >>> Thanks, >>> -Aswath >>> >>> On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 1:29 PM, Raj Saini <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> You will need to do it on very beginning of every page. header.ftl >>>> is the >>>> place you can put your code. header.ftl is part of the theme for >>>> 9.04 and >>>> trunk. >>>> >>>> Thanks, >>>> >>>> Raj >>>> >>>> >>>> aswath narayana wrote: >>>> >>>>> Any ideas on this... >>>>> My ecommerce pages are very bad in IE7. Hence, I don't want to >>>>> support >>>>> IE7. >>>>> Where are the hooks to provide this kind of check? >>>>> >>>>> Thanks a lot. >>>>> Aswath >>>>> >>>>> On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 12:08 PM, aswath narayana < >>>>> [email protected]> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>> Hello, >>>>>> I don't want to support IE7, so I want to display a message to the >>>>>> user >>>>>> saying >>>>>> 'use IE8, firefox etc.' >>>>>> >>>>>> How can this be done >>>>>> >>>>>> Regards >>>>>> -Aswath >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>> >> >> -- >> BJ Freeman >> http://www.businessesnetwork.com/automation >> http://bjfreeman.elance.com >> http://www.linkedin.com/profile?viewProfile=&key=1237480&locale=en_US&trk=tab_pro >> >> Systems Integrator. >> > > -- BJ Freeman http://www.businessesnetwork.com/automation http://bjfreeman.elance.com http://www.linkedin.com/profile?viewProfile=&key=1237480&locale=en_US&trk=tab_pro Systems Integrator.
