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Posted by Diogenes on 01/07/08 08:39
I'm not claiming to understand everything you comment on,
particularly spoofing IE (is this automatic?), but the web
site I provided is a link to is an asp page which would indicate
an MS shop. FF had a 36% share on this site.
Your assertion about visitors to 'w3c' may be valid. But
where are the most reliable statistics?
FWIW, the microsoft sites, especially MSDN, are amoung the most
useless to solving a windows problem. IMHO, using the exact same
query on Google produces much better results than the MSDN search engine.
Cheers
-Dio
cwdjrxyz wrote:
> On Jan 7, 1:10 am, Diogenes <nos...@nospam.net> wrote:
>> Several articles I read recently regarding the demise
>> of Netscape Navigator stated that Firefox had managed
>> to get a 16% market share and that IE still has over 80%
>> of the eyeballs.
>>
>> Yet my statistics and those of others indicate a much
>> higher % than that. For example
>>
>> http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp
>>
>> Comments anyone?
>
> Those who go to w3c sites likely know more about computers(or at least
> want to know more) than the average of all computer users. As a result
> they more likely will try non-IE browsers even if IE came installed on
> their computer. Microsoft sites likely would see more IE browsers than
> the average. Opera sites would more likely see far more Opera browsers
> than the average. The browsers owners likely have records of the
> downloads of their browsers, but I doubt it they would be willing to
> share this information. Also some browsers such as Firefox and Opera
> can spoof other browsers so they will not be shut out by script when
> the site really would work for the browser. Thus browser statistics
> should be taken with several grains of salt. I would guess that a
> banking or credit card company statistics might be near the average
> for browser usage( neglecting spoofed browsers). However even here you
> would likely get a percentage of very old browsers below the average,
> because such sites usually have high level security that often
> requires fairly new browsers. Also, until recently, many such high
> security sites were designed to work only on IE and Netscape browsers.
> I have not found any business sites that I now use often that reject
> Opera or Firefox without setting these browsers to spoof IE, but you
> likely could still find some.
>
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