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10 Percent of UK Sites Incompatible with Firefox
Bimo_Dude writes "The BBC News is reporting that ten percent of UK websites alienate Firefox users. From the article: 'While most people still use Microsoft's browser, Firefox is slowly making inroads. Its share of the browser market grew to 8% in May, up from 5.59% at the beginning of the year, according to US-based analysts NetApplications. Microsoft IE's share of the market dropped to 87.23% in May, compared to 90.31% in January.'"
I'm from the UK and my site, www.xearix.com (the XearixNET IRC network) isn't. I remeber my old schools website only worked in IE, was a real hassle working around all the glitches to get my work downloaded - quite often I just thought screw it, if they can't be arsed to design a website which is actully complys with standerds, I can't be arsed to do my homework.
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...10 percent of UK web sites are hosted at the domain http://www.msn.co.uk./
Why don't webdesigners simply use standard compliant ways to make their websites?
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When I see a site that don't work in Firefox, I usually don't bother open up IE for that site.
Damn, it reminds me when I told about a certain webmaster how his page wasn't working good with other browsers than IE.
He added a "Designed for IE" claim... -_-
It turns out that on these 10%, they render just fine. It's just that the content is an insult to the intelligence of the average Firefox user.
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What TFA doesn't tell you is that the UK is a tiny little island inhabited by hobbits, leprechauns and the Oasis brothers. A tiny little island where www.microsoft.co.uk makes up 9% of the accessible websites.
The other 1% is the Beckham/Adams fansite, which we all know is poorly coded.
What makes this study any more accurate than others?
This study is one of the 3.75% of all studies of which the statistics are not pulled from a derriere.
How is it possible for so many sites to be like this? I have designed a fair number of websites but I really don't know how I'd go about making it difficult for Firefox users
(Aside: web standards seems to be replacing SEO as the new web buzzword). We've got a client who runs his own web development house, focusing on standards. His methodolgy is: (1) we develop an accessible, validating site. (2) since he's the boss, and also an *expert*, he tweaks everything in Frontpage. (3) some sarcastic barstard actually validates the site, and discovers it no longer validates. They email our client. (4) our client contacts us to complain that the site "isn't valid HTML and CSS!" Et voila, instant pile of non-validating, Firefox-hating poo.
It'd be funny if it wasn't so sad.
This is where the serious fun begins.
Hell, 10% of websites don't work in IE either (or any browser) just because whoever made the page didn't know what in the hell they were doing.
The impact of your more than adequate reasons would be further enhanced if he hits those same people over the head with a bit stick while he's telling them.
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