[dba-Tech] MS CSS enhancements -- was Compromised IE

Bryan Carbonnell carbonnb at gmail.com
Sat May 7 14:02:48 CDT 2005


On 5/6/05, Stuart McLachlan <stuart at lexacorp.com.pg> wrote:
> On 6 May 2005 at 8:54, John Bartow wrote:

> > I wouldn't worry about other browser too much unless specified by the
> > client. I think over the last 5 years all the sites we manage have had about
> > 1.5% hits from other browsers.
> 
> You can't afford to ignore the other browsers any more.
> IE's share of the browser market is declining. On current filgures,  using
> IE only features on a business site will stop about 15% of your visitors.
> See http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/04/28/_ie_firefox/
> 
> I'd also suspect that the more "tech savvy" your target audience, the
> higher the proportion of non IE hits will be.

Yep. Just have a look at the stats for DBAs website
http://www.nedstatbasic.net/s?tab=1&link=5&id=2298610

IE - 52.1 %
FF - 41.7

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