Re: Netscape 3.0...A Long Way to Go

On Mon, 12 Aug 1996, Dan Delaney wrote:

> >From the Netscape 3.0 Announcement page...
> 
> "Next Monday, Netscape Will Take the Wraps Off the Final Version of 
>  Navigator 3.0 and Reveal Why Internet Explorer Has a Long Way to Go"
> 
>    Now, correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't the latest beta of MSIE 
> support both Style Sheets AND the new OBJECT tag? And is it not true that 
> Netscape 3.0 will not support either of these?
>    And Netscape said that Internet Explorer has a long way to go???

I find their market percentage stats much more interesting. My current
numbers put Netscape at 81.5%, MSIE at 12.4% and everyone else together at
6.1%. The stats on their page show Netscape at 87.6%, MSIE at 2.6%, and
everyone else at 9.8%. It looks like they are using old numbers to reduce
the MSIE percentage in particular, and not completely factoring out
'compatible' browsers that inflate Netscape in the raw counts. Netscape
has *never* reached 87%+ in the correctly counted numbers.

The good side of my current stats is that fully 5% of browsers in use
right now can view CSS stylesheeted pages. :) 

-- 
Benjamin Franz

Received on Monday, 12 August 1996 19:10:48 UTC