On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 1:46 PM, Westley Martínez <aniko...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, 2011-04-14 at 14:02 +0000, Steven D'Aprano wrote: >> On Thu, 14 Apr 2011 19:15:05 +1000, Chris Angelico wrote: >> >> > 4) Assumes people aren't deliberately fiddling the figures. Yeah, that >> > would be correct. We're in the realm of conspiracy theories here... does >> > anyone seriously think that browser stats are THAT important that they'd >> > go to multiple web servers with deceitful hits? >> >> Back in the day, not that many years ago, when it looked like Internet >> Explorer would never dip below 90% market share and web developers coded >> for IE quirks instead of standards as a matter of course, I used to >> fantasize of writing a Windows virus that (apart from propagating) did >> nothing but change the user-agent string on IE. It would have been >> awesome to witness the consternation among web developers. >> >> But thanks to the EU doing what the US DOJ refused to do, and the grass- >> roots popularity of Firefox (plus a fewer well-known even if not often >> used browsers like Safari and Opera), and then Google's scarily efficient >> way they can capture hearts and minds on the Internet, IE's market share >> has been whittled away to the point that there are places in the world >> where IE is a minority browser. A large minority, it is true, but still a >> minority. >> >> Now, if only we could convince web users that having your browser execute >> untrusted code downloaded from the Internet is not such a good idea, >> supposed sandbox or not. What the world needs is a virus that silently >> removes Javascript and Flash from browsers... >> >> >> >> -- >> Steven > > Web developers will always use the tool they find to be the most > reliable, efficient, and useful, as will consumers.
You're kidding. Web developers will usually use what they believe will reach users, without excessive pain or embarrassment - and sometimes with. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
