Re: Strange "Netscape Problem"

I too find that most of my users have been IE and Web-TV, few are Netscape.
I tend to "design for the masses" not for the few.
I am not the only one. There are many others who have grown frusted with the
temperament of Netscape and really want to just "design" and they also have
low Netscape traffic.
Best of Luck
----- Original Message -----
From: "Stuart McDonald" <stuart(at)fourelephants.com>
To: <hwg-techniques(at)mail.hwg.org>
Sent: Thursday, November 02, 2000 7:00 PM
Subject: Re: Strange "Netscape Problem"


| The change in stats is interesting - it is also dependent on where you are
| based/aimed at.
|
| I'm operating in Bangkok, Thailand for a mainly Thai audience. Pirated
| software here is easily available here (like, ridiculously easily
| available!!) and stats from one of the sites I run are consistently around
| IE4+ above 90-95% and NS4+ - 10-5%. This is based on an average of about
| 130,000 hits a month which, although not huge is enough to use as a guide.
|
| Being a NS user I find the above disappointing, but in the same breath
know
| that I can add some IE fancy trimmings (even though I design and test
first
| on NS) because the audience is so massivly IE.
|
| Cheers
|
| Stuart
|
| ----- Original Message -----
| From: hb <herblondeness(at)yahoo.com>
| To: <hwg-techniques(at)mail.hwg.org>
| Sent: Thursday, November 02, 2000 12:16 PM
| Subject: Strange "Netscape Problem"
|
|
| > >From: "tim booker" <timbooker(at)btinternet.com>
| > >Subject: RE: Strange Netscape Problem
| > >You are right.  Netscape 4 is still used by 13% of
| > >surfers, compared to Microsoft's 81%.
| >
| > Interesting stat.  Funny, tho - the stats from
| > TheCounter.Com counter on my site (12,000+ unique hits
| >  to date) consistently show 41% to 45% of my visitors
| > use Netscape 4.x or higher.
| >
| > I code my pages to standards, not to a particular
| > browser.  If a company chooses to code its site for
| > MSIE users to the exclusion of NN users, so be it.
| > But I do wonder if said company is aware that's being
| > done, and that as a potential paying customer (and NN
| > user) I *will* take my spending money elsewhere.
| >
| > Finally, having pled guilty to caving in and laying on
| > a lash or two, can we please lay this dead horse (of a
| > browser issue) to rest and get on with the business at
| > hand.  I'm pining for my daily dose of excellent
| > advice.
| >
| > Elise
| >
| >
| >
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