[Info-vax] IE8 got me too :-( Sorry Jeff.

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 18-01-2010 11:21, VAXman- @SendSpamHere.ORG wrote:
> In article<7rj7ebFut2U4 at mid.individual.net>, billg999 at cs.uofs.edu (Bill Gunshannon) writes:
>> In article<4b53cdaa$0$273$14726298 at news.sunsite.dk>,
>> 	Arne Vajhøj<arne at vajhoej.dk>  writes:
>>> On 14-01-2010 11:43, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
>>>> In article<TK9PAYZrZv2V at eisner.encompasserve.org>,
>>>> 	koehler at eisner.nospam.encompasserve.org (Bob Koehler) writes:
>>>>> In article<7r8j3oF3qnU2 at mid.individual.net>, billg999 at cs.uofs.edu (Bill Gunshannon) writes:
>>>>>> Why should anyone care?
>>>>>
>>>>>      Because it costs money to pay people to make web pages compatable
>>>>>      with all the non-standard web browsers,
>>>>
>>>> What does it cost when they can't read your page with their browser
>>>> of choice and they go to another company who's web page they can
>>>> actually see to buy their products?
>>>
>>> But that comparison is not very relevant.
>>>
>>> Standard compliant code in general can be read by more people.
>>
>> What?  I thought we were just told that IE and other MS products do
>> very non-standards things?  And it has already been demonstrated that
>> IE makes up the lion's share of browsers visiting the sites that
>> count them.
>
> I count them here and M$IE is a minority.  Firefox at 38%, Safari at 34%
> and M$IE at 12%.  Mac users and WEENDOZE users are in a near dead heat.
> Also, for the streaming listeners, iTunes bests WinAmp usage 54% to 22%.
> If I were to count the AppleTV listeners, Apple would be farther ahead
> but I'm being fair and only counting the 'puter user listeners.

Somehow I suspect that the visitors to your site are not
quite similar to the average internet users !

Arne