To: Bush2000
Once a browser drops below around five percent, I would expect it to go on a slide to oblivion because, as the article pointed out, site designers no longer test for that browser. In our estimates, we add 20-25% extra cost for a site that supports both IE and Netscape. People were willing to pay that when Netscape had 25% or more market share. At less than 5%, I would not be surprised if we never do another project supporting Netscape.
To: Joe Bonforte
My clients are very happy telling their customers that Netscape is not supported in our Domino and Jwalk apps. Just as you said: 25% to 30% more expensive to make eveything work in both.
6 posted on
08/28/2002 1:05:42 PM PDT by
AdA$tra
To: Joe Bonforte
"Once a browser drops below around five percent, I would expect it to go on a slide to oblivion"
I use Opera. You are correct that some sites do not make themselves totally compliant. I therefore hold Internet Explorer in reserve for such sites.
However, I find Opera is *so* superior to IE or any other browser that I find it worthwhile to use Opera as my standard and use IE on those less than 5% of the sites that do not render correctly with Opera.
10 posted on
08/28/2002 1:16:30 PM PDT by
APBaer
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