[Javascript] Browser compatibility (was: DISABLED key word)

[Erwin Kodiat]

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Browser Statistics (from  <http://www.w3schools.com> www.w3schools.com)

Browser Version	 Apr 00	 Jul 00	 Oct 00	 Jan 01	 Apr 01	
Internet Explorer 5.x	 51%	 60%	 66%	 72%	 79%	
Internet Explorer 4.x	 26%	 20%	 15%	 12%	 8%	
Internet Explorer 3.x	 1%	 0%	 0%	 0%	 0%	
 	  	  	  	  	  	
Netscape 4.x	 16%	 14%	 13%	 10%	 7%	
Netscape 3.x	 1%	 0%	 0%	 0%	 0%	

Browsers that count for less than 0.5% are not listed. 

Source :  <http://www.thecounter.com/> http://www.thecounter.com/ 

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Display Statistics

Screen Resolution	 Apr 00	 Jul 00	 Oct 00	 Jan 01	 Apr 01	
>1024x768	 29%	 30%	 32%	 34%	 39%	
800x600	 56%	 56%	 55%	 54%	 51%	
640x480	 10%	 9%	 8%	 7%	 6%	
Other or Unknown	 5%	 5%	 5%	 5%	 4%	

Color Depth	 Apr 00	 Jul 00	 Oct 00	 Jan 01	 Apr 01	
32 bit (max color power)	 23%	 23%	 26%	 25%	 26%	
24 bit (more than 16 million colors)	 12%	 12%	 11%	 11%	 9%

16 bit (more than 65000 colors)	 54%	 54%	 54%	 55%	 58%	
  8 bit (256 colors)	 8%	 8%	 6%	 6%	 5%	
Other or Unknown	 3%	 3%	 3%	 3%	 2%	

Source :  <http://www.thecounter.com/> http://www.thecounter.com/ 

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OS Statistics 

Operating System	 Apr 00	 Jul 00	 Oct 00	 Jan 01	 Apr 01	
Windows 98	 61%	 63%	 66%	 68%	 80%	
Windows 95	 23%	 20%	 16%	 13%	 8%	
Windows NT	 8%	 8%	 7%	 6%	 1%	
Windows 2000	 0%	 2%	 3%	 4%	 4%	
MAC	 2%	 2%	 2%	 2%	 1%	

Operating systems that count for less than 0.5% are not listed. 

JavaScript	 Apr 00	 Jul 00	 Oct 00	 Jan 01	 Apr 01	
JavaScript 1.2 (or higher)	 79%	 82%	 83%	 80%	 85%	
JavaScript 1.1.(or less)	 2%	 1%	 1%	 0%	 0%	
JavaScript Turned Off	 18%	 16%	 15%	 19%	 14%	
Unknown	 1%	 1%	 1%	 1%	 1%	

Source :  <http://www.thecounter.com/> http://www.thecounter.com/



Erwin Kodiat
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-----Original Message-----
From: Peter-Paul Koch [  <mailto:gassinaumasis at hotmail.com>
mailto:gassinaumasis at hotmail.com]
Sent: Sunday, May 20, 2001 01:36
To: javascript at LaTech.edu
Subject: RE: [Javascript] Browser compatibility (was: DISABLED key word)


> > Welcome to the club <g>. Fortunately it'll only take a few more months
>to
> > make it disappear. I guess that somewhere between September and
> > December we
> > will conclude that Netscape 4 is dead, and there will be dancing in the
> > (virtual) street.
> >
> > ppk
>
>I think NS4 will be around a bit longer than that.  Even then we'll all
>still have to build sites that are IE4/NS4 compliant.
>
>I'll give it a year or so.

Well, IE4 will disappear sooner. I expect that at the end of summer we don't
have to worry about it any more. My criterium is that it has to have less
than 3 % market share to be disregarded.

Also, now that we can do nice things that crash Netscape 4 but work fine in
other browsers, I suspect this will be done more and more often, so that
even diehard NN4 users will get the message and upgrade.

But maybe you're right. For the moment, though, I assume that in December at
the latest we'll say goodbye to Netscape 4.

We'll see how it works out,

ppk

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