On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 2:51 PM, Dan Stromberg <drsali...@gmail.com> wrote: > This data is of course skewed a bit toward computers that people are > using web browsers on.
Right, Linux servers are most likely underrepresented. At best the data indicates what the population at large is using on their desktops. > Also, something like LWN tends to get more > Linux users, while microsoft.com tends to get more windows users. That's why it's important to look at a large number of sites and take more than one source of data into account. > Also, some sites only allow IE (often for rather capricious reasons), > so some *ix users tell their browsers to pretend to be IE to get > around the restriction - and sometimes it's just easier to pretend to > be IE all the time, even when you don't really need to. That is one potential issue, although I really doubt that it accounts for more than a couple of percent of the IE usage data. > And IE runs > on Solaris, albeit in what is probably now an ancient version. It also runs on Macs. Fortunately, it is standard practice to include the OS in the user-agent string, so there is no need to guess it based on the browser. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
