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Bifta · 19-06-2004, 14:43

The number of people using anything other than IE is so minutely small that Microsoft don't need to conform to anything, like a lot of other people, if a page doesn't render correctly in IE, I'm not going to install another browser just to get round it.

Here's an indication from one of my busier site's showing how many people use a browser other than IE, less than .84%

Top 15 of 1035 Total User Agents

# Hits User Agent

1 238858 20.66% Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)
2 157182 13.59% Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1
3 105478 9.12% Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0)
4 48786 4.22% Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows 98)
5 43825 3.79% Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows 98; Win 9x 4.90)
6 27099 2.34% Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0; .NET CLR 1
7 26142 2.26% Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; FunWebProd
8 24963 2.16% Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.01; Windows NT 5.0)
9 15599 1.35% Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 5.0)
10 14076 1.22% Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.0; Windows 98; DigExt)
11 12805 1.11% Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; CDSource=v
12 11227 0.97% Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; AOL 9.0; Windows NT 5.1)
13 10563 0.91% Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; BT Openwor
14 9904 0.86% Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 4.0)
15 9672 0.84% Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows 98; Win 9x 4.90)

I don't know if Webalizer picks up proper mozilla browsers so here's some other stats:

#: #reqs: #pages: browser
--: -------: ------: -------
1: 1552822: 71395: MSIE
: 1332391: 60777: MSIE/6
: 217190: 10600: MSIE/5
: 3241: 18: MSIE/4
2: 16496: 732: Mozilla
: 15217: 647: Mozilla/1
3: 1707: 210: Opera
: 1707: 210: Opera/7
4: 612: 111: Konqueror
: 612: 111: Konqueror/3
5: 8941: 66: Netscape (compatible)
6: 24: 24: ia_archiver
7: 426: 9: Galeon
: 426: 9: Galeon/1
8: 4: 3: HenryTheMiragoRobot (http:
: 4: 3: HenryTheMiragoRobot (http://www
: 3657: 0: [not listed: 9 browsers]

19-06-2004, 14:43	#26
Bifta Inactive Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Eglinton, Co. Derry Posts: 7,640	Re: Why you should dump IE. The number of people using anything other than IE is so minutely small that Microsoft don't need to conform to anything, like a lot of other people, if a page doesn't render correctly in IE, I'm not going to install another browser just to get round it. Here's an indication from one of my busier site's showing how many people use a browser other than IE, less than .84% Top 15 of 1035 Total User Agents # Hits User Agent 1 238858 20.66% Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1) 2 157182 13.59% Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1 3 105478 9.12% Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0) 4 48786 4.22% Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows 98) 5 43825 3.79% Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows 98; Win 9x 4.90) 6 27099 2.34% Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0; .NET CLR 1 7 26142 2.26% Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; FunWebProd 8 24963 2.16% Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.01; Windows NT 5.0) 9 15599 1.35% Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 5.0) 10 14076 1.22% Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.0; Windows 98; DigExt) 11 12805 1.11% Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; CDSource=v 12 11227 0.97% Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; AOL 9.0; Windows NT 5.1) 13 10563 0.91% Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; BT Openwor 14 9904 0.86% Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 4.0) 15 9672 0.84% Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows 98; Win 9x 4.90) I don't know if Webalizer picks up proper mozilla browsers so here's some other stats: #: #reqs: #pages: browser --: -------: ------: ------- 1: 1552822: 71395: MSIE : 1332391: 60777: MSIE/6 : 217190: 10600: MSIE/5 : 3241: 18: MSIE/4 2: 16496: 732: Mozilla : 15217: 647: Mozilla/1 3: 1707: 210: Opera : 1707: 210: Opera/7 4: 612: 111: Konqueror : 612: 111: Konqueror/3 5: 8941: 66: Netscape (compatible) 6: 24: 24: ia_archiver 7: 426: 9: Galeon : 426: 9: Galeon/1 8: 4: 3: HenryTheMiragoRobot (http: : 4: 3: HenryTheMiragoRobot (http://www : 3657: 0: [not listed: 9 browsers]