Re: Asking for trouble (+ browsers to design for)

David.Artiss(at)boots.co.uk wrote:
>I'm in the process of creating a non-profit making site and am having problems
>with Netscape and general browser incompatibilities. Having looked at the 
>stats
>for the last 1000 hits, though, makes me wonder how much effort it's worth
>going to....

If you currently have browser incompatibilities, is it reasonable to assume 
(yes, yes, I know) that maybe the low percentage of Netscape is because 
there are NS users that can't load the site at all, therefore, don't get 
counted? I can't say or guess ... can you?

>Obviously the situation is different in my case because it's not a 
>business site
>that's making money and hence needs all the hits it can. I DO intend to do 
>some
>Netscape work with it, but how much time do you think it's worth me spending

That depends on the future developments by AOL. The browser figures could 
turn WAY around overnight, if AOL dumps IE as their default browser. And it 
does look like they are trying to do just that. See this article:
"AOL wants to put the breaks on IE"
http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0%2C4586%2C5081832%2C00.html?chkpt=zd 
hpnews01

So ... who wants to guess what will happen next?
  :-)
Roxy
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