As long the degradation only occurs in appearance. If 
functionality degrades below that needed to use the 
site (I briefly visited a commercial site, now forgotten, 
where their shopping cart system didn't work in NS4).

David
dvjones(at)ksbe.edu

On 17 Feb 2004, at 13:47, Darrell King wrote:

From:           	"Darrell King" <darrell(at)webctr.com>
To:             	<hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org>
Subject:        	Re: Missing pictures
Date sent:      	Tue, 17 Feb 2004 13:47:39 -0500

> Coding a site that degrades gracefully will also address
> the issue of holdouts.
> 
> D
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Jon Scott" <jscott(at)cpec.org>
> 
> <snip>
> 
> If you're not coding for NN4.x you can pretty much count
> 20% of your visitor traffic as ticked off.  Even if your
> traffic flow doesn't show 20% use, it's no wonder.  If I
> go to a site once and it doesn't render in my browser I'm
> not going back.  Unless I REEEAAAALLLLY need something
> from that site.
> 
> Statistical analysis is so often misinterpreted by the
> techies/ web wonks for a site,  that the actual marketing
> people don't know why visitors aren't coming back to the
> site.
> 
> I'm willling to bet a lot more people are using NN than
> originally measured. It's ust that when the browser wars
> were declared over, by who I couldn't tell ya, that many
> developers stopped building NN compatible sites.
> 
> I for one konw it would be a lot easier to not have to
> build web pages that are Netscape Navigator, Opera, and
> Mozilla compatible.  But I also know that I'm giving up
> the last 30% or so of our web traffic to the "I'm not
> interested in your traffic unless you use microsoft IE",
> world.
> 
> Sorry, but 30% more traffic is not something I'm willing
> to give up.
> 
> How do I know it's 30% when many studies show 20% or less
> total non-IE traffic.  Easy, because we program with NN in
> mind and gained an extra 10% traffic because of that.  Not
> to mention, it's jut possible our demographics don't match
> the so called norm.
> 
> </snip>
> 


 

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