[WEB4LIB] Re: Future of HTML

[Nancy Lin]

On Wed, 14 Apr 1999, Thomas Dowling wrote:

> Fun questions, John.
> 
> The OhioLINK web sites started gently using CSS over two years ago, and I
> rely on CSS more and more--with the proviso that I keep our stylesheets
> safe for Netscape 4.x.
> 
> My target for HTML is 4.0 Transitional--when I validate, that's the DTD I
> use and have used almost since it came out, but I seldom use a doctype
> declaration.  Another proviso--I might use, but certainly never rely on,
> some of the features introduced in 4.0.  Again, I keep our pages safe for
> Netscape 4.x and readable for Netscape 3.x.
> 
> For what it's worth, the browsers I consider
> "stylesheet-capable" - Netscape 4.x, IE 4.x and 5.x (but not 3.x), Opera
> 3.5x - routinely make up more than 90% of our traffic.

This reminds me of the chicken and egg problem.  Do they make up more than
90% of your traffic because the people who use other browsers can't view
your site properly and therefore don't visit after awhile?  Or do most 
users really use just netscape and ie?  

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nancy