Anyone want to help me wind up this bod ?

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(don't worry, very little traffic)

Thread
"Co-operative Bank withdraws support for non-Windows business account
users"

All I want is proof, but they don't seem to be able to grasp the concept
and think I am being awkward

 

I tried Mozilla 1.0.0 on Debian Linux and the site says it won't work
with my browser...

http://www.smile.co.uk/cgi-bin/compatibility/smiletest.cgi

After adding this line to my prefs.js file:

user_pref("general.useragent.override", "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows 98)" );

Their server is as happy as can be. Fuckwits.

 

Oh, sorry, misread your request.
I thought you *were* being awkward so I went to help you wind them up.
Subtly mind, subtly ;-P


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Wxcept that is not the one they are moaning about ( I use smile myself
from Solaris with Mozilla)

 

Well, ok , I am

 

<makes note>

That's quietly building up a fire for the night, right?

 

It's not wholly unusual. To test a website with every possible
browser is nigh on impossible and different browser all render things
in different ways. To restrict your users to certain browsers is the
norm. And given the IE has 99% of the market I can understand a
company choosing to ignore any other browser. I do it myself.

 

I don't know what makes them think that

 

thats exactly the sort of thing I am fighting against. People who make up
stats or facts and decide that they are real. People then start to
believe them and quote them.

http://www.onestat.com/html/aboutus_pressbox26.html

Its *not* 99% ... Ok !

 

95%... not a huge difference really is it?

Interesting - the sites I work on are averaging 93% IE.

 

1. Microsoft IE 6.0 68.1%
2. Microsoft IE 5.5 13.8%
3. Microsoft IE 5.0 11.8%

Total market share = 93.7%

For an off the top of my head guess I was pretty close.

 

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MS might claim 99% of the market. Why not do a poll on here, and in The
Shed? I think you'd be surprised how many use other browsers.

The only thing I ever used IE for was to download Opera. And I used
Opera to download Firebird.

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Jaques

Are you *seriously* holding UKRMers and the Sheddi up as being in any
way representative of the rest of the planet?

Seek help.

 

The message <c2dd47$1s2e8d$-berlin.de>

How many of those are other browsers pretending to be IE?

 

Doesn't matter. When you're selling something or providing a service
it makes sense to provide it to the biggest group of people. In
browser terms, that's IE users.

I'm not saying this from a pro-IE point of view, I'm saying it from a
"I work as a web developer and that's life" point of view.
90-whatever % of browsers are IE so if you want 90-whatever percent of
people to be able to use your website perfectly you write it so it
works perfectly on IE. If it was Netscape or Opera with that market
share then they would be the target browsers.

 

HELP! Anne!

 

Here's the stats for hexmad.com for March:

1 52.02% MSIE 6.0
2 12.79% Google
3 10.71% Other [1]
4 9.95% Mozilla/5
5 6.23% Mozilla/4
6 4.48% MSIE 5.5
7 3.06% MSIE 5.0
8 0.66% Mozilla
9 0.11% Opera

[1] Mostly bots that are not google.

 

Your hexmad site is for predominately techie types, what would the stats
from, say, Argos be like?

 

You'd have to queue for half an hour to collect the statistics from a
bored, surly teenager, then assemble them over the course of an
afternoon, and even when you'd done that they'd look nothing like they
did in the catalog.

 

So how do you explain away that is *was* netscape with that market share,
yet everyone wrote for IE ?