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Nancy -> RE: CSS and Mozilla/Netscape Nightmare! (11/7/2003 16:14:56)
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I don't know that I could venture a guess on percentages, but I know it is fairly low. However, even if it was only 10%, that is a number that should be considered in some way. For a brick and mortar business, that equates to one person in 10 being locked out of the store. Most business people would not take that risk. When it comes to browsers, it is possible to make a site useable without locking those people out. It is the visual experience that is changed. I know there are plenty of web designers that strongly believe it is the visual experience that "sells" but I look at it a little differently. A blind person doesn't get the visual experience of the $100,000 interior re-design of a store, but as long as the re-design of the store didn't involve physical roadblocks in the aisles for a person walking around the store, the blind person can still get the items they came for. And by separating out all the visual effects, or styling of the content, from the HTML, you can actually increase the accessibility of a site for those using older browsers. As for upgrade notices - I'm sure some of them have received those notices on a regular basis and either ignored them, or chose not to do them. When the first version of NN6 came out, it was horrible. ISP's, in my area at least, were giving out notices for people NOT to upgrade. It wasn't long and NN had an upgrade that seemed to take care of the initial issues, but many of those people who were told not to upgrade are keeping that warning in their mind I think. I've never been confident about the statistics regarding browser use. I've been recently teaching a class on a computer related issue. So I took my own little poll. Of the ten people in the class, 4 are Netscape users. Of those 4, only one still uses NN4, the other 3 are using NN7. I won't say this class reflects global stats, but certainly it is a cross-section of people that I would consider average surfers. And the lonely only NN4 user is 10% of the class. Nancy
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