[WEB4LIB] RE: CSS-2 question

[Mark Ellis]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Thomas Dowling [mailto:tdowling at ohiolink.edu]
> Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2001 7:02 AM
> To: Multiple recipients of list
> Subject: [WEB4LIB] RE: CSS-2 question
> 
> > >
> > > http://www.webmasterbase.com/article.php?aid=379
> > >
> > > from the Site Point.
> >
> >
> > The browser stats he uses show that 77-80% or more of users 
> are using IE
> 5.x
> > or higher, or even Netscape 6.x.  Yet when you look at where those
> > statistics come from, it is ALL from sites that are 
> counting visitors to
> > those sites, which are sites aimed at technology wonks or web site
> > designers.  He does add the caveat that the only stats that 
> count for
> your
> > site are stats from  your site, but I don't see how he can claim any
> > pretense to applying those statistics to "the real world" user.
> 
I don't know how representative our users are of the non-wonk community, but
last month 74% of them were using IE 5.01+ or AOL [Netscape] 6.0.  Netscape
6.0 under it's own label and Opera must be below .36% because they don't
even register on the meter.  This leaves us only 3-6% behind the numbers
Caroll cites.  This is encouraging, but there's still the other 25% we have
to deal with.

P.S:  I've just read Charles Gimon's posting and am surprised at how
different his numbers are.

Mark Ellis
Manager, Reference and Information Services
Richmond Public Library  
Richmond, B.C.                      
(604) 231-6410
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