At 12:34 pm +0100 29/10/04, Cox, Will wrote:
>On the day A-Level results were issued just under 6000 unique
>visitors browsed our clearing listings - 0.77% of them used Netscape
>and only 0.04% were using version 4 - that equates to two people -
>hardly a figure worth worrying about.
>
>There are no real barriers to upgrading as browser software is a
>free download and/or available on any number of cover disks - I
>wouldn't be surprised if the main reason we still get visitors using
>these browsers is because they are being used people like us
>to check how well pages degrade!
Downloading over a modem, buying a magazine, why bother? I'll just
get grumpy because the page doesn't work. Users aren't technocrats
and you shouldn't expect it of them.
Just make sure they can read the page sensibly whatever they look at it with.
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