Re: UKNM: Re: Is the Mac coming back?

[Paul Sanders]

statmarket uses javascript - and so is susceptible to the problems 

you describe below. It measures what it measures and fucks up on what 

it fucks up on in a remarkably consistent way.


However, my Mac Knowhere figures are up again, 1.1% of total in IE4, 

6.7% on NS4, and a few random loonies to make up 8.2%


 >  > Has anyone else noticed the Macintosh percentage of their audience

 >  > climbing recently?

 >

 >StatMarket (http://www.statmarket.com/) only show about 3% of web users as

 >being on MacOS, from a total daily sample of 34million.  The chart of

 >historical data for the year

 >(http://www.statmarket.com/SMHT?c=OS_War&i1=Macintosh&m=30&p=327) shows very

 >little change.

 >

 >If anyone out there has a decent size of access_log to hand, i'd be

 >interested in knowing which percentage of Mac users use Netscape vs IE.  A

 >friend of mine (Disclaimer:  Not someone working here, a friend back home)

 >was working on a site recently which has a fair smidge of

 >validating-fields-style Javascript on it.  It worked fine in IE4+ and

 >Netscape 4+ on Windows, but only in Netscape on Mac  (IE didn't stop the

 >user using the site, it just wasn't validating 100% accurately at the client

 >side).


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Paul Sanders - a member of the state51 conspiracy

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