Jim Lawrence (AccessD)
accessd at shaw.ca
Thu Feb 20 18:06:01 CST 2003
Hi Brett: Just a comment...I took a ten month course on web commerce, last year and a lot of design improvements are implemented using statistics to decide which standards are embraced and which standards are abandoned. The school purchased a full set of stats from an online web statistical gathering site. (if anyone wants I will track down the URL but be warned it costs.) The decisions whether a particular layout or technology was to be utilized depended a lot on its percentage of market penetration coupled with it rate of disappearance. Student site were marked on their adoption of new feature but only if it did not adversely a too large percentage of the market. Example: 1. Greater than 95% or the market uses 17 inch (or greater) monitors so most web sites use 600 x 800 resolution. 2. Less than 3% of the viewing market can not view a full colour palette so the 'web-safe' colour concept is a non issue. 3. Less than 5% of the market uses NS browsers that are older than version 6. 4. Flash has a 96% penetration of the web users. and so on... A developer has to weight the cost of supporting a shrinking fringe group and traditionally, on smaller sites, a client is reluctant to pay for fifty percent of their cost for less than 5% of their viewing audience. It is not fair but that is the way it is Jim -----Original Message----- From: accessd-admin at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-admin at databaseadvisors.com]On Behalf Of Brett Barabash Sent: Thursday, February 20, 2003 8:09 AM To: 'accessd at databaseadvisors.com' Subject: RE: Netscape with IE - was RE: [AccessD] New look for ColbyConsul ting I've been reading this thread with great interest. I was thinking about investing in Dreamweaver, but it seems to create Flash-centric sites. I guess this would make sense since Macromedia owns the technology. For other Dreamweaver users out there: Does it offer viable alternatives to using Flash (e.g. animated GIFs)? > -----Original Message----- > From: John W. Colby [mailto:jcolby at colbyconsulting.com] > Sent: Thursday, February 20, 2003 10:00 AM > To: accessd at databaseadvisors.com > Subject: RE: Netscape with IE - was RE: [AccessD] New look for > ColbyConsulting > > Well, here's a new one. I have been viewing my site this whole time. > Installed Mozilla and it informed my I had to download the flash widget > (button). Why? It had to be installed for IE to run. > > John W. Colby > Colby Consulting > www.ColbyConsulting.com > > -----Original Message----- > From: accessd-admin at databaseadvisors.com > [mailto:accessd-admin at databaseadvisors.com]On Behalf Of Seth Galitzer > Sent: Thursday, February 20, 2003 10:47 AM > To: accessd > Subject: Re: Netscape with IE - was RE: [AccessD] New look for > ColbyConsulting > > > John, > > you can have any number of browsers on your system, but each one will > try to "take over" the association of .htm files when you launch it. I > believe you can disable this behavior in many of them, but each one is > different. As for browsers, here are a couple of the major players: > > Mozilla (NS7 is based on this, so if it looks good here, it will look > good on NS7 as well; so is the Phoenix browser) > http://www.mozilla.org/ > > Opera (shareware, but fully functional) > http://www.opera.com/ > > Netscape (4.x, no longer distributed, but still widely used; VERY > different fron NS7) > http://wp.netscape.com/download/archive/client_archive47x.html > > There are a raft of other alternative browsers here: > http://download.com.com/3150-2356-0.html?tag=dir > > but the three I mentioned above are probably the most common > > Download away... > > Seth > > On Thu, 2003-02-20 at 09:19, John W. Colby wrote: > > Does anyone know if Netscape and IE will now co-exist. In the olden > days > > you could trash a computer by trying to install both at the same time. > > Also, could someone point me to some other browsers I can download (for > free > > - no money to do this). > > > > John W. Colby > > Colby Consulting > > www.ColbyConsulting.com > > > > -- > Seth Galitzer sgsax at ksu.edu > Computing Specialist http://puma.agron.ksu.edu/~sgsax > Dept. of Plant Pathology > Kansas State University > > _______________________________________________ > AccessD mailing list > AccessD at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com > > > > ---------------------------------------------------- > Is email taking over your day? Manage your time with eMailBoss. > Try it free! http://www.eMailBoss.com _______________________________________________ AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com