{"id":1456,"date":"2005-05-27T04:25:00","date_gmt":"2005-05-27T04:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/userpage.fu-berlin.de\/~frers\/cgi-bin\/blosxom.cgi\/blog\/050526-browser_share.html"},"modified":"2010-01-23T02:17:14","modified_gmt":"2010-01-23T01:17:14","slug":"the-beast-in-decline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/userpage.fu-berlin.de\/frers\/blog\/?p=1456","title":{"rendered":"The beast in decline."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"\/~frers\/blosxom\/data\/050526-browser_share.gif\" width=\"450\" height=\"400\" alt=\"browser share for May 25th 2005 as shown by my SiteMeter statistics\" title=\"browser share for May 25th 2005 as shown by my SiteMeter statistics\" style=\"border:1px solid black; margin-right:4px\" \/>On the diagram you can see a pretty average distribution of browsers visiting my site. Since the free account at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sitemeter.com\/\">SiteMeter<\/a> only includes browser share statistics for the last 100 visits the variation can be pretty big. Firefox&#8217;s share has been increasing over the last few months, although it has been hovering around 20% for the last two months or so. The development which I watch most closely these days is the percentage of Internet Explorer 5.x users that are visiting this site. This has been steadily decreasing and is usually below 10%. What is even better: more than half of the <abbr title=\"Internet Explorer\">IE<\/abbr> 5.x share consists of Mac Internet Explorer versions that are much, much better at rendering according to standards (that is, their <em>Tasman<\/em> rendering engine keeps up with most of the <abbr title=\"Cascading Style Sheet\">CSS<\/abbr> Level 1 code that I throw at it). This makes the actual share of Windows IE 5.x \u2013 <abbr title=\"also known as\">a.k.a.<\/abbr> the beast \u2013 using visitors something below 5%. That in turn means that I will soon stop supporting this browser and rely more heavily on using modern CSS to manage the layout of my page. I did a similar thing when I dropped support for Netscape 4.x versions several months ago. However, in that case I waited until the Netscape 4.x share dropped below 1%. Why do I handle things differently for Win IE 5.x and start dropping support at a share of about 5%? Because windows machines that are able to run IE 5.x are able to run Firefox well enough too. And they should run it because of the tons of security holes that are opened by browsing the web with this hideous beast of a browser.<br \/>\nThe new background image in the main column of this blog is one visible step in the direction redesign and recoding will take \u2013 most of the work will remain invisible to those browsing the site. However, that work will enhance accessibility and standards compliance (and propably the search engine ranking too).<br \/>\n<br style=\"clear:both\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the diagram you can see a pretty average distribution of browsers visiting my site. Since the free account at SiteMeter only includes browser share statistics for the last 100 visits the variation can be pretty big. Firefox&#8217;s share has been increasing over the last few months, although it has been hovering around 20% for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[93,272,214,29,102],"class_list":["post-1456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech","tag-blog","tag-firefox","tag-html","tag-internet-explorer","tag-visitor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/userpage.fu-berlin.de\/frers\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/userpage.fu-berlin.de\/frers\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/userpage.fu-berlin.de\/frers\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userpage.fu-berlin.de\/frers\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userpage.fu-berlin.de\/frers\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1456"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/userpage.fu-berlin.de\/frers\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2308,"href":"https:\/\/userpage.fu-berlin.de\/frers\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1456\/revisions\/2308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/userpage.fu-berlin.de\/frers\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userpage.fu-berlin.de\/frers\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userpage.fu-berlin.de\/frers\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}