[thelist] stupid CSS question

deke web at master.gen.in.us
Wed Nov 28 13:15:45 CST 2001


On 28 Nov 2001, at 9:14, Matt posted a message which said:

> Thanks for all the responses. Looks like in the final analysis, it can
> be done, but only 5% of the audience is guaranteed to see it :) (Isn't
> that NN6's market share at this point?)

I think it's higher than that, but it depends on where you are gathering 
stats. If you go to hit-meter sites, you get a lot of "My Ferret Fred" 
sites, built by people whose sites are unfriendly to anything except 
MSIE running at 800x600, and that's going to affect the numbers you 
get.

But the numbers I get still aren't high enough to matter.  

One of my sites is a general-interest (dating) website that is built
to work correctly even in Mozilla/2 on a plain vanilla VGA monitor; 
(AOL-IWENG, MSIE/2 and Lynx don't like tables.)  When I checked 
out traffic one day last week, I got about 14000 html/shtml pages not 
requested by spiders, as follows:

    2.80%    MSIE/4.x
   56.87%    MSIE/5.x
    9.05%    MSIE/6.x
    0.14%    Netscape/3.x
    9.99%    Netscape/4.x
   14.39%    Netscape/5.x  
    0.56%    Netscape/6.x
    6.15%    WebTV/2.x

All three versions of Netscape/6 identify themselves as Mozilla/5 in 
the USER_AGENT strings, and that's the Netscape/5.x entry. 

The Netscape/6.x USER_AGENT strings show Mozilla/6 
Netscape/6.0 and I don't know what that is. Someone playing around 
with Opera, perhaps?



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