Re: IBM Web support -- MIDRANGE-L

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rob@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

not .97%, 99.97% (original number was .03%)

Granted, my numbers are off, (oh Lord I feel that I am getting dragged into this void) but a vast majority of the people use Internet Explorer. And if the features in that outweigh the benefits of supporting "obscure" browsers then I can understand someone making a business decision either way.

When the bull elephants blow their horn even IBM has to scramble to support their 'changes'. Like when Adobe's latest viewer did not support pdf's generated by a version of Infoprint Server. IBM complained mightily to Adobe, but scrambled out with ptf's quite quick.

Rob Berendt

A couple of recent surveys show usage of IE 5 or 6 at around 93%. A couple of comments on that: First, there's no way to tell if a client is lying by spoofing the HTTP_USER_AGENT. In many cases, someone using a different browser may well spoof the user agent to get into a web site that only allows IE clients. And so the 93% may well be inflated by some amount. Second, does it make sense for any business to write off 7% (or more) of its potential customers? Sure, some can afford to. But 7% may very well give another business that competitive edge.

From my own experience with web site development, I know I'd love to take advantage of some particular features of CSS which work great in modern browsers, like Moz. Unfortunately, I can't use them since the dominant browsers have such poor support of CSS, and will likely never catch up. :-(

Cheers! Hans

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