The site is general and has no Apple content. The reason above (Safari previews) is correct and the figures are not adjusted to allow for that. From the Safari bounce rate and av. time on site, I'd say a third of the 20% may be previews. - So a better estimate may be:
Internet Explorer 47%
Chrome 18%
Safari 14%
Firefox 14%
These are the figures for visitors to a 250,000 visits a month site in the UK:
Internet Explorer 44%
Safari 20%
Chrome 17%
Firefox 13%
In any case, I'm not sure what 'choice' many visitors have. Some people get what their IT department installs, others stick with what is on (eg Mac/Safari or Windows/IE), others with what their familt IT support insists on.
If the order posted on Chilling Effects is correct you can see why Google took a broad view [my emphasis]:
Order the defendant to withdraw the articles, photographs and graphic representations of Belgian publishers of the French - and German-speaking daily press, represented by the plaintiff, from all their sites (Google News and "cache" Google or any other name within 10 days of the notification of the intervening order, under penalty of a daily fine of 1,000,000.- ? per day of delay;
With a decent micropayment system Google could really change the web. It's a shame this is not it.
It's likely Google could blend micropayments into sites pretty well with their AJAX skills - and their infrastructure should mean that the implementation cost was marginal (for them).
And search could benefit. A micropayment is a pretty good vote for a site.
As profit-making enterprises, they should be trying to charge more...
This implies the existance of a fair marketplace. However, copyright law actually legalises a monopoly. This is only a good thing where the benefits (protection of the artist and encouraging creativity) outweigh the extra costs of monopoly.
In the situation we have today, where changes in recording and transmission technology are reducing the possible unit cost dramatically, we have to question if the monopolies are standing in the way of price reduction.
I'm a web developer spending about half my time on database/dynamic sites and half on brochureware small sites.
For small sites that change slowly, I find the combination of Dreamweaver library and Templates and its site management functions a quick way to run a site.
Furthermore, the extensions feature adds functions that can speed up coding (example - menus on pages that link to anchors on the page and converting addresses to links).
If you want really compliant code, then some work under Dreamweaver's bonnet (you can edit all the automatically added code) and a little hand-coding of Templates usually sorts things out.
Tablet PCs miss a huge market. Think output, not input!
Typing and mice aren't perfect, but for most people perform well for input and control. The real problem is reading from a PC. What I need is a low-cost dumb display.
I need to be able to move away from my PC and read. A lightweight, mono touchscreen, with wireless connection to my PC would be great for browsing and reading.
I just got sent a 100-page report in Adobe PDF to comment on. I don't want to print it out; neither do I want to sit at my monitor. I need to have a dumb display.
With a simple touch pop-up keyboard on screen, it would serve for basic browsing - like searches and filling in forms.
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The site is general and has no Apple content. The reason above (Safari previews) is correct and the figures are not adjusted to allow for that. From the Safari bounce rate and av. time on site, I'd say a third of the 20% may be previews. - So a better estimate may be:
Internet Explorer 47%
Chrome 18%
Safari 14%
Firefox 14%
These are the figures for visitors to a 250,000 visits a month site in the UK:
Internet Explorer 44%
Safari 20%
Chrome 17%
Firefox 13%
In any case, I'm not sure what 'choice' many visitors have. Some people get what their IT department installs, others stick with what is on (eg Mac/Safari or Windows/IE), others with what their familt IT support insists on.
If the order posted on Chilling Effects is correct you can see why Google took a broad view [my emphasis]:
http://www.chillingeffects.org/notice.cgi?sID=2160
With a decent micropayment system Google could really change the web. It's a shame this is not it. It's likely Google could blend micropayments into sites pretty well with their AJAX skills - and their infrastructure should mean that the implementation cost was marginal (for them). And search could benefit. A micropayment is a pretty good vote for a site.
As profit-making enterprises, they should be trying to charge more...
This implies the existance of a fair marketplace. However, copyright law actually legalises a monopoly. This is only a good thing where the benefits (protection of the artist and encouraging creativity) outweigh the extra costs of monopoly.
In the situation we have today, where changes in recording and transmission technology are reducing the possible unit cost dramatically, we have to question if the monopolies are standing in the way of price reduction.
I suspect they are.
For small sites that change slowly, I find the combination of Dreamweaver library and Templates and its site management functions a quick way to run a site.
Furthermore, the extensions feature adds functions that can speed up coding (example - menus on pages that link to anchors on the page and converting addresses to links).
If you want really compliant code, then some work under Dreamweaver's bonnet (you can edit all the automatically added code) and a little hand-coding of Templates usually sorts things out.
Tablet PCs miss a huge market. Think output, not input!
Typing and mice aren't perfect, but for most people perform well for input and control. The real problem is reading from a PC. What I need is a low-cost dumb display.
I need to be able to move away from my PC and read. A lightweight, mono touchscreen, with wireless connection to my PC would be great for browsing and reading.
I just got sent a 100-page report in Adobe PDF to comment on. I don't want to print it out; neither do I want to sit at my monitor. I need to have a dumb display.
With a simple touch pop-up keyboard on screen, it would serve for basic browsing - like searches and filling in forms.