- From: William Warren <hescominsoon@trifles.com>
- Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2003 07:10:42 -0400
- To: Jake Robb <jakerobb@mac.com>
- Cc: W3C Public Web Plugins List <public-web-plugins@w3.org>
i disagree..the websites me and my wife take care of were at first made in FP2k..however i went in and turned off all the ms proprietary stuff..we then switched to dreamweaver....we are now in the process of moving to Amaya....we design to W#C standards..not to MS's whims.. Jake Robb wrote: >Just to be clear about MS's dominance in the browser market, here are the >stats for about two weeks from my web site, which has nothing to do with >computers (aside from being a web site), and fully complies with current >HTML standards, and as such should introduce no browser bias. > > >Browser Hits % >------------------------------------------ >MS Internet Explorer 564540 95.2 % >Netscape 15180 2.5 % >Mozilla 5368 0.9 % >OmniWeb 3778 0.6 % >Safari 1602 0.2 % >Opera 605 0.1 % >WebTV browser 504 0 % >Unknown 401 0 % >Firebird 299 0 % >Konqueror 106 0 % >Others 93 0 % > > >Note 1: The IE figure above includes all versions, including Mac versions. >IE6 for Windows consists of 74.4% of our hits, IE5.5 15%, and we see hits >from versions as early as 3.0. > >Note 2: No, I have no idea what the difference between "Unknown" and >"Others" is. I blame my web stat analyzer. > > >Anyway, the point is that the dominance evident above means that whatever MS >does with their browser, the other browser developers will be forced to >follow suit, or they will alienate their users. > >-Jake > > > >Nicholas Chase wrote: > > > >>Richard M. Smith wrote: >> >> >> >>>Microsoft already has a monopoly on the browser market. >>> >>> >>Maybe they have a majority, but there ARE other competitors. >>Maybe those competitors don't have too much of a foothold >>at the moment, but at least they're out there. >> >>---- Nick >> >> >> >> > > > > -- May God Bless you and everything you touch. My "foundation" verse: Isaiah 54:17 No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper; and every tongue that shall rise against thee in judgment thou shalt condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, and their righteousness is of me, saith the LORD.
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