From jay.kominek@colorado.edu Wed Dec 05 20:48:17 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: kominek@ucsub.colorado.edu X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_0_1_2); 6 Dec 2001 04:48:15 -0000 Received: (qmail 94419 invoked from network); 6 Dec 2001 04:48:14 -0000 Received: from unknown (216.115.97.167) by m10.grp.snv.yahoo.com with QMQP; 6 Dec 2001 04:48:14 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ucsub.colorado.edu) (128.138.129.12) by mta1.grp.snv.yahoo.com with SMTP; 6 Dec 2001 04:48:12 -0000 Received: from ucsub.colorado.edu (kominek@ucsub.colorado.edu [128.138.129.12]) by ucsub.colorado.edu (8.11.6/8.11.2/ITS-5.0/student) with ESMTP id fB64mBC11923 for ; Wed, 5 Dec 2001 21:48:12 -0700 (MST) Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2001 21:48:11 -0700 (MST) To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: [WWW] browser usage statistics (was: Big update!) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE From: Jay Kominek X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=20706630 X-Yahoo-Profile: jfkominek http://www.google.com/press/zeitgeist.html Given that Google is now the leading search engine, especially among people willing to try new things (our target crowd), it is a valid source for information about browser usage. MSIE 5.0 and 5.5 are about tied for number of users, and the both of them have 3 times more users than Netscape 4.x, which has almost haved in usage in the past 6 months. MSIE 6.0 is sky rocketing. (A bit of rough math taking into account only those 4 browers, pegs IE with 87.5%, tossing in the other broswers would lower it slightly.) http://browserwatch.internet.com/stats/stats.html BrowserWatch pegs Internet Explorer with 86.8% of users, Netscape (all versions combined) with 6.77%, Opera and lynx with 2.2% and 1.1% respectively. That agrees with Google's Zeitgeist data. (And of course, we all know that Microsoft is the end all and be all of computing, and as such, we shouldn't even be considering the use of non-Microsoft software in the first place... right?) A dissenting party would of course, need to provide references for their claims, or else be disregarded as an uninformed crank. (Rather reminiscent of academia, don't you think?) - Jay Kominek Plus =C3=A7a change, plus c'est la m=C3=AAme chose