On 10/12/05, Craig Rippon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Genuine question: > > Is this because they visit, it doesn't work, and they don't come back, > forever losing them as a customer?
Probably not. Linux users tend to be running either a Gecko-based browser (Mozilla, Firefox, Galeon and Epiphany being the most popular) or Konqueror, and due to the ease of keeping applications at the latest versions on most modern Linux distributions, they tend to be running recent versions. BrowserCam's installation of Konqueror (and most other Linux browsers) is a version that's nearly three years old, so out-of-date that I'm surprised they continue to offer it. Since Gecko-based browsers render (nearly) identically on all platforms, there's no need to worry on that count, and recent versions of Konqueror have made a number of improvements to KHTML as well as rolling in fixes and updates from Apple, which means that Konqueror's rendering is very close to Safari's for most purposes -- enough so that I use Konqueror as a "poor man's Mac" at times. And the converse is true; if, like many designers, you have access to a Mac, you can use Safari as an indicator of your compatibility with Konqueror. And for what it's worth, the site mentioned above renders as expected for me in Firefox 1.0.7 and Konqueror 3.4.0, and those are the latest versions available for the Linux distribution I use. -- "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." -- George Carlin ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ******************************************************
