Alternatives to the W3C

[Andy.Bradbury at syntegra.bt.co.uk]

JAT

Whilst the figures may clearly show the proportion of visitors using each
kind of browser, they do nothing to indicate the 'key' audience.

I'm referring to Pareto's Law, of course, which suggests that only some 20%
of site visitors are 'key players' - the other 80% (approx.) are just
'passing through'.

Simply skewing your website display in favour of the browser(s) used by the
majority of your visitors *could* be (partially) shutting out the visitors
you'd most like to encourage.  But on the other hand, how would you ever
know?

Regards

Andy B.

-----Original Message-----
From: Steven Livingstone, ITS, SENM
[mailto:steven.livingstone at scotent.co.uk]
Sent: 20 January 2000 16:34
To: Didier PH Martin; 'XML Dev'; Elliotte Rusty Harold
Subject: RE: Alternatives to the W3C


This is useful ...
Browser Flavors
 Browser Flavors                  Hosts     %
 --------------------------------------------
  1. Microsoft                     7245  60.3
  2. Netscape                      4332  36.1
  3. other                          436   3.6
Microsoft Explorer Versions
 Version                     MSIE Hosts     %
 --------------------------------------------
  1. v5                            4581  63.2
  2. v4                            2330  32.2
  3. v3                             213   2.9
  4. v2                             116   1.6
  5. other                            5    .1
 

Source : http://www.cen.uiuc.edu/bstats/latest.html

steven

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> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Didier PH Martin [SMTP:martind at netfolder.com]
> Sent:	20 January 2000 04:15
> To:	'XML Dev'; Elliotte Rusty Harold
> Subject:	RE: Alternatives to the W3C
> 
> Hi
> 
> Elliotte said:
> These developers are deluding themselves. MSIE 5.x is less than 50% ....
> 
> Didier replies:
> To get an objective picture, do people can suggest sites having statistics
> about browsers, I promise to make an average of all these numbers and
> publish them back to the group. This way, we'll have a more objective base
> for our thinking and we will resemble less to a parliament or a senate
> :-))
> 
> Cheers
> 
> 
> 
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