[WEB4LIB] Is Netscape dead? I asked Jeeves

[David Merchant]

>But, seriously, are most others in agreement with Dan Lester's post
>(portions below) and is there really no other choice but IE?  I for one am

Content may be king, but Context is queen.  In the Context of my particular 
work environment: an academic public university in Northern Lousiana, 
Netscape browser is the overwhelming choice of browser.  That is what 
accesses our library website the most, around 77% - 80%.  We have a lot of 
folk here entrenched with Netscape and are not giving it up any time 
soon.  Even most of the student population is accessing the website via 
Netscape.  I also have our WinU and IKIOSK set up to work with Netscape, 
and I just don't have the time at all to change over to IE (I am the entire 
Systems Department, with regular desktop support, install of new equipment, 
and upgrading and maintaining the webpage, plus reference desk duty, it's 
all I can do at times to keep my head above water).  IE is faster in some 
instances, and NN is faster in other instances, so I don't see a need to 
change at this point.

Now YMMV (since context is queen), and you may be in a context, or 
environment, that has more IE users for this or that reason(s).  In such a 
case, yes IE is really the only choice.

TTFN,
David
Systems Librarian, Louisiana Tech University
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