Mike Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alex Martelli) writes: > > Maybe that's the key difference between the mindset of a > > mathematician and that of an engineer -- I consider reaching over > > 95% of visitors to be _quite good indeed_, >> What surprises me is that marketing types will accept turning away - > what's the current internet user base? 200 million? - 10 million > potential customers without a complaint. Or maybe they just don't get > told that that's what's going on.
Obviously we all agree the effort to support both is significant. The question is not so much "do we turn away 5%" as "do we use the effort we do have to provide a better experience for the 95%, or to provide a slightly worse experience for the 95%, and an ok experience for the 5%". If you're a business, the question then becomes, does the incrementally better experience produce a higher conversion rate (i.e. more sales), in which case it may well be a better investment to focus there and ignore the 5%. It's but one perspective, but depending on your goals, can be a reasonable choice to make. Mark -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
