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Alternatives to the W3C (was Re: Alternatives to the W3C)

• From: Colin Muller <colin@d...>
• To: Miles Sabin <msabin@c...>
• Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2000 18:44:44 +0200

If I may stray off-topic for a second, I'd like to second the view that
a Good Idea supported by Running Code is probably the most workable
alternative to the W3C standards slowgress; it's undoubtedly more
effective than mailing list flame wars. But I digress, so back to the
main point of this thread ...

http://www.TheCounter.com/stats/1999/December/browser.html

In brief: IE5.x 41%, IE4.x 36%, NS4.x 17%, everything else 1% or less.
Based on about 497 million unique visitors (unique over what time period
is not specified) over the month of December. Sites involved are mainly
general-interest and not big commercial ones.

All of which suggests to me that XML is best kept server side in open
environments for a good while yet.

Of course, 1% is enough people to earn you a gold record.

Colin Muller

Miles Sabin wrote:
> 
> Brandt Dainow wrote,
> > SUMMARY:
> > IE 5= 46.6%
> > IE 4= 23.2%
> > NS 4= 25.8%
> > NS 3= 01.5%
> > REST= 02.9%
> 
> I still have a gut feeling that 46.6% is unrepresentatively
> high.

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