- From: Charles McCathieNevile <charles@sidar.org>
- Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2004 11:09:52 +1000
- To: "Paul Davis" <paul@ten-20.com>
- Cc: IG Group <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
Hi Paul, I am curious about the site stats you look at - although I don't necessarily mean to dispute your facts. I have noticed that many browsers identify themselves as IE (Opera does this by default, and many others make it easy to do so). Simple playing around suggests that this is to get around browser-sniffers that exclude other browsers for no terribly good reason. Likewise, there are many techniques for stats gathering that do not work neatly. Proxying means that straight log checking is fraught, and the use of such proxy-aware techniques as images drawn from a CGI gateway and not cached by proxies assumes that users who do not get images are statistically insignificant. There was a W3C activity trying to characterise the web and its usage, and people like Len Kasday were involved because of the importance of any such data to accessibility questions (and the importance of questions like the above in the way data are gathered). They gave up, in part I believe because it turned out to be an apparently intractable problem. Cheers Chaals On 9 Apr 2004, at 19:28, Paul Davis wrote: > It is a fact according to site stats that I look at that 97% of > browsers > that visit sites I monitor are I.E. in various stages of evolution. > (sic. > congrats to Microsoft) > > -- Charles McCathieNevile Fundación Sidar charles@sidar.org http://www.sidar.org
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