Posted by jake on 08/29/05 16:27

In message <9qp5h11t910ipst6to6lmf9q29v4fi44md@4ax.com>, Andy Dingley
<dingbat@codesmiths.com> writes
>On Mon, 29 Aug 2005 11:02:42 +0100, jake <jake@gododdin.demon.co.uk>
>wrote:
>
>>According to the stats, something like 98% of the (random) visitors to
>>the site use some release of IE.
>
You missed out this bit:

"... Assuming that some of the stats reflect other browsers masquerading
as IE, I suspect that '90% of genuine IE users' is not an exaggerated
figure..."

>Then your stats are wrong.

And you know this ......... because?

>Browsers (chiefly Opera) faking themselves to
>report as IE are very common.

Didn't I just say that? (hint: it's in the bit you left out.)
>
>More than 2% of my users aren't even using Windows and even IE/Mac
>(which is very unpopular) is sufficiently different from IE/PC to be
>regarded as a different browser for authoring test purposes.
>
Like I said, "... I suspect that '90% of genuine IE users' is not an
exaggerated figure..."

YMMV.

regards.

--
Jake
(jake@gododdin.demon.co.uk .... just a spam trap.)

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