Taco, The company that I work for at the moment cannot afford to say 'bye bye' to 5% of web users (let alone 2%) for the simple fact that 5% represents THOUSANDS of customers all wanting to pay us money to provide them with web services.
BTW, You were 'web designing' in 1991...? > > ----------------- > Unfortunately, while we do vaguely know what *most* of the > users use right now, we don't know at any point, for any > particular site, what those *specific* users are browsing with, > and what they will be browsing with in the future. > ----------------- > > Is it really still vague? > If we keep thinking like this, will we ever get a standard? > > I realize years ago, it was crazy to say, "hey I will only code for > Browser X", > because there was such a variety used out there. But lately > it has been quite > obvious what the USERS are using (and once again let > me stress out that that does > not mean I agree with what they are using) > the two browsers at the top are > Internet Explorer and Mozilla, with > Internet Explorer Leading. > Cool, time to say bye bye to EVERY other browser that is not within this > range, > i.e. the ones that only have a share of 5% or less percent. Let > the top two battle > it out, i.e. let's see who the users will choose in > the next two years, after > that, bye bye number 2. One browser left, and > we can all code for one browser (or > engine/parser if they wised up and > used the same backend but different front-end) > and we can all finally > start using those fancy features that we have stayed away > from because > they don't work in every browser. > > ;-)) > Taco > ***************************************************** > The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ > ***************************************************** > ***************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ *****************************************************
