now people are using cell phones, palm pilots, pocket pcs, etc. there are screen readers for the visually impaired, as well as applications that blowup the onscreen content. you have people using Lynx (text-based browsing) for one reason or another. I know of several school systems (k-12) that still standardize on NS4 because that is what some web application they use supports.
you can't design a site to "pixel precision" and expect others to see it that way.
so it's not really a matter of statistics. its more a matter of how widespread the medium has become, extending to non-traditional devices and browsers.
----- Jeremy Flint www.jeremyflint.com
P.H.Lauke wrote:
*****************************************************Yes, but are there any really hard statistics about what the public is doing. We know roughly 7% don't use or diable javascript. But what about disabling styles?
<rant type="unfocussed rambling"> Why is that relevant? Heck, it's almost like we're going back to the old "how many % of users still run at 800x600...lamers"
We know it's 7% ? Do we ? Lies, statistics and lies...it always comes down to *your* particular audience.
Yes, we have to give up a level of control on how our pages are presented (if you want pixel perfect, go back to print, or use flash/PDF/etc), but we gain flexible delivery based on user preferences. We're not forcing our visual sensibilities onto users that don't want them (e.g. those surfing with a simple text browsers couldn't give a damn about lines and lines of markup relating to presentation, or stylesheets). However, that's obviously *not* the same as saying that we should therefore not care about presentation at all. </rant>
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