| That's true, however, I think that you are underestimating the number of people that have consciously made the decision that any browser with less than .5% is not worth optimizing for (especially since you'll end up upsetting stuff for more popular browsers if you're not careful), and in some companies/situations that .5% might even be a lot higher. Even my bank, which has a pretty awesome website (and a correspondingly large budget) does not work when I increase the size of my browser past 2048 pixels or when I visit using Konqueror. It's not that they couldn't get it to work, it's just that they probably don't even care because it is a problem that is too low on their list of priorities. It's like that with everything, finite budgets -> some of the apples will fall off the cart, and in some cases that's just too bad. The people that make the decisions are usually well aware of that. I think what is more amazing here is that you're actually able to see almost all other sites with a browser that old, considering that the vast majority of the site operators are definitely not testing with that particular setup. Try finding a store that will sell you 78 rpm records or even an 8 track player. Media readers that are 'behind the times' are most of the time pretty useless, compared to that your elderly browser is doing fine. Just for the heck of it, here are the stats for a small site: mozilla: 160630
IE: 325291
Opera: 17869
Mobile: 45175
Konqueror: 147
That's unique visitors, not pageviews. |