Dan Connolly wrote:
On Sun, 2008-11-16 at 00:58 -0800, Jonas Sicking wrote:
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In fact, we can still see this today. While firefox now has a worldwide
marketshare of about 20%, our marketshare in many countries in Asia is
tiny. Our market research data has shown that the main reason for that
is website compatibility. Even though Firefox parses valid HTML4 very well.
I'd like to look at that research data; is it something
you can share with the HTML WG? Is it already published?
Hi Dan,
So it seems I spoke a bit too strongly. We don't actually know that
website compatibility is *the* main reason for slow marketshare, we just
have strong indication that it is *a* big reason. I'm still trying to
get hold of the actual data, but we did a survey about a year ago on the
top 100 sites in China. Most of them did not work in firefox due to
relying on IE quirks and IE-specific APIs
Now we don't have any actual data on that people choose other browsers
because of this. However it seems like a fair assumption that if most
popular sites do not work in a browser, many users will go for the
browser where all sites work. But like I said, we don't actually have
proof that people choose a browser that can render top 100 rather than
one that can't. All evidence we have to show that part is anecdotal.
If I'm able to find the actual data for the survey I'll send it.
/ Jonas
