Re: UKNM: just one last rant on... browser compatibility - that old chestnut

[Andy Theyers]

At 16:06 20/09/99 +0100, Greg Plumbly wrote:

>Im surprised its as high as 20% even for ukcentric sites. Ive just picked up

>figures from http://www.statmarket.com/SM?c=Browsers

>

>MSIE 4.x     40.34%

>MSIE 5.x     32.30%

>Netscape 4.x 20.18%

>MSIE 3.x      2.89%

>Netscape 3.x  2.36%

>WebTV         1.07%

>Netscape 5.x  0.31%

>MSIE 0.x      0.23%

>MSIE 2.x      0.19%

>Netscape 2.x  0.01%

>

>I only have access to one ukcentric site log and Netscape 3 users account

>for around 5%


I've got access to the logs for over 80 NHS sites (not the most technologically advanced users, generally) and 3rd generation and below browsers only account for 13% of the users.  Having said that I do also have a stalwart of Netscape 1.2 users (4 - the same 4 every month!).


Not very surprisingly IE 4 wins by a mile, with 48% of the users, followed by IE 5 with 22% and Netscape 4 with 17%.


Cheers


Andy 

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