Posted by Dylan Parry on 01/07/08 09:13

Diogenes wrote:
> 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.

An "MS shop" on the server side, maybe, but that doesn't mean that their
users are any more likely to favour MS software. ASP doesn't require IE
to view the pages, so I can't really see that as having much of an effect.

> Your assertion about visitors to 'w3c' may be valid. But
> where are the most reliable statistics?

I doubt that the most reliable stats are actually available to the
general public. As cwdjrxyz stated, you'd only get these sort of stats
from a site that crosses all of the various demographics, and the only
sites that are going to capture everyone in their demographic are sites
like Google and Amazon - yet I don't think they publish their logs :)

> 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.

Perhaps for solving a Windows problem, but certainly form a developer's
point of view, they are second-to-none. I can't count the number of
times I have consulted the C# API documentation on the MSDN site.

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