Are 99.9% of Websites Obsolete?

citizenkeller writes "Zeldman is at it again: " Though their owners and managers may not know it yet, 99.9% of all websites are obsolete. These sites may look and work all right in mainstream, desktop browsers whose names end in the numbers 4 or 5. But outside these fault-tolerant environments, the symptoms of disease and decay have already started to appear.""

Comments

Re:This is just a book advertisement.

[poot_rootbeer]

You have a separate back-end script for every single browser that exists? No, I didn't think so.

.Net or .Obsolete

[TheLastUser]

In my view, if you aren't using .Net your site is obsolete and experiencing decay. I encourage all those who are still using legacy technologies, like php, java, and perl, to re-assess their enterprise e-strategy. What companies need to do to combat this code rot is to implement .Net and gain 1 degree of separation between MS and their e-infrastructure.

.Net or .Obsolete its your choice.

Figures

[Dogtanian]

Your figures are interesting; IE is always going to make up the vast majority of hits, but isn't it possible that the users of other browsers/OSes got hacked off and stopped using your site?
Just an observation. I don't know the economics of the situation, so I can't say how much testing is worth your while.

BTW, one *obvious* solution is to buy computers running those OSes, and test it on them. Sensible solution requires a bit more thought, I'm afraid.