[thelist] Web Browser Popularity

Peter-Paul Koch gassinaumasis at hotmail.com
Wed Nov 20 11:46:01 CST 2002


> >:1: Internet Explorer - IE6 + IE5 = 94%
> >:2: Netscape Navigator - N5 + N4 = 2%
> >:3: Opera
> >:4: Mozilla
> >:5. Other

Mozilla on 3rd place, Opera on fourth in my stats.

> >Opera is in 3rd place but accounts to 0% in view of total audience
> >
>
>Considering that Opera is able to "disguise" itself as other browsers (like
>IE), Opera's numbers are probably low.  However, I would suspect that the
>order is right even if the numbers aren't accurate.

The browser string always contains 'Opera', though, so reliably detecting it
is quite possible. Of course most browser detect scripts are very badly
written.

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