[WEB4LIB] Re: Browsers

[Dan Lester]

At 09:31 AM 6/4/99 -0700, morganj at iupui.edu wrote:
>In addition to the factors mentioned below, I'd add that Microsoft's java
>support seems less than enthusiastic, so Netscape might work better for
>some sites.  Also both IE and Netscape have become very large programs, so
>that we sometimes use Opera where speed is needed, and where hardware
>resources are limited.

Opera has some good points, but unless they decide to make it free, I can't 
see widespread adoption among academic (or other) libraries.  We (the other 
techies I work with and I) are pushing IE5, which isn't much of a push at 
all.  Once my colleagues see that it opens about five times as fast when 
they click it up, they're sold.

Our log analysis stats (http://library.boisestate.edu/statslink/index.htm 
if you're really interested) show a change from fall quarter of 97 when it 
was 83 percent NN, to the first quarter of 99 when it was 62 percent 
NN.  Not a real rapid change, but one that seems to be continuing.

cheers

dan



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