Browser usage.

[Shawn J.P. West (BlackSheep)]

On Mon, 17 Nov 1997, Wilfred Drew wrote:

> For my internet site, Not Just Cows, I have been using the free counter
> provided by pagecount.com.  It is shwoing some intereseting statistics.
> 
> In the last 3000 hits, the majority of users are uisng Windows 95.  The
> most used browser is Netscape 3.0 with all versions of Internet Explorer
> coming in second and Netscape 4 coming in at third.
> 
> This raises the following question in my mind:
> 
> 1. If people are using Win95, why not use the latest browser?
Bugs and HUGE security holes with each version X.0 of both browsers. A lot
of people come from places with Large IS departments that don't believe in
putting stuff on early. But resource hoggs would be my first guess from
end users i spoke to.

> 2. Some are still using Netscape 1.0 and 2.0, why?
A lot of people still use Win 3.1 and also for reasons like ram and system
resourdes it's more efficient. [ Netscape takes 25-30 megs of space on my
mac and still likes more that 20 megs. ] [ IE likes more than 16 megs of
ram to run with out crashing on my WINTEL ]

> > 3. When do users switch to the latest browser version? > --
I found that before 4.0 i would switch at the .01 or .02 point but now
with all the security issues and new HTML i switch often to stay ahead.
But if i did not build pages as long as the browser did frames what else
do i need in terms of features [ may be javascript ]


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