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10 Percent of UK Sites Incompatible with Firefox

Posted by Zonk on from the share-the-web dept.

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.'"

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  1. Odeon is terrible by Mr_Silver · · Score: 4, Informative
    Although it'll probably annoy a lot of people here, I can generally put up with sites that render stuff badly or try to get you to "upgrade" to IE when you're using Firefox because at least I can still get at the content.

    However, the Odeon site is completely inaccessible. It's not a case of stuff not looking or formatting correctly, but once you followed the "entire site" link it was more a case of nothing actually being displayed to the user - no listings, no cinemas, nothing.

    Even worse, if you emailed them to complain, they told you the site was undergoing a re-design. To my mind that has had to be at least a couple of years ago all because they couldn't be arsed to change some IE only javascript.

    Anyway, if you've got GreaseMonkey this script will make the site accessable again.

    ps. Whilst we're at it, if you have a phone or PDA then you might be interested in Movie Guide which provides you with you with detailed listings of all films showing in UK Cinema's.

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  2. Re:Breaking News...UK only has 40 websites! by djmurdoch · · Score: 4, Informative

    I think you missed this: "Of 100 UK leading consumer websites that SciVisum tested...".

    I imagine they chose that sample size to make the percentage calculations perfectly accurate.

  3. Here's even an excerpt by Psychic+Burrito · · Score: 4, Informative

    I couldn't believe that, but look at this exerpt of the book (pdf).

    On page 19, the author actually says:
    In my view, you should design Web pages for Internet
    Explorer (IE) version 6 running on a typical 17'' monitor. Why? Here are the reasons:
    -more than 95 percent of the people visiting your Web site use IE 6.
    -You can take advantage of lots of cool effects that work only in IE or IE 6. Your job is much easier if you're designing for a predictable, stable canvas.

    It's extremely stupid to give such an advice. I suggest that people email either the author, Richard Mansfield or the publisher, Wiley.