- From: Jake Robb <jakerobb@mac.com>
- Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2003 11:21:01 -0400
- To: W3C Public Web Plugins List <public-web-plugins@w3.org>
If 95.2% of web users can't view HTML designed to W3C standards, W3C standards will change. -Jake William Warren wrote: > > 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.
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