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AOL Releases Client for Mac OS X with Gecko Browser

Posted by pudge on from the and-here-i-am-using-a-plain-old-isp dept.

DietFluffy writes "America Online released an update to their Mac OS X client. The built-in browser is powered by Gecko! However, America Online plans to stick with Internet Explorer for their Windows client. Will this make web designers think twice about tailoring their web pages to Internet Explorer? Or will they ignore this, given that the Windows client will still have Internet Explorer as the default browser?" And if this goes well, will the Windows version eventually use a Gecko-based browser, too?

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  1. I wish my competitors ignored AOL... by alexhmit01 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    AOL is the SINGLE most important demographic for anyone in the B2C space. They are followed closely by people that use MSN's search engine. People that use Yahoo's search engine are a distant third.

    People that run NS6/Mozilla are meaningless. Google searchers with any browser are kinda worthless.

    NS4 users are important, you get people at work at low-tech companies.

    I mean, it depends what you are doing. If you are building crazy flash sites with loud annoying noises, ignore AOL. My sites try to make money, like hell I'll ignore the largest contingent of shoppers, just because people think that they are stupid.

    I'll take an semi-illiterate user running AOL 5.0 on an 800x600 monitor visiting my site over a "1337 Linux Hacker" running a Mozilla beta shopping me and 12 competitors to save 50 cents...

    Alex