<div dir="ltr"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 10:27 AM, Nadav Har'El <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:nyh@math.technion.ac.il">nyh@math.technion.ac.il</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
On Fri, Apr 23, 2010, Oron Peled wrote about "Re: [Haifux] [HAIFUX Workshop] The Web Rant Workshop":<br>
<div class="im">> E.g: the COO may get really pissed off to find that with all the<br>
> money thrown at the company website, the result cause ~20% of potential<br>
> visitor to stay out.<br>
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</div>But can you honestly tell him that?<br>
<br>
The sad truth is so many Israeli sites don't work properly in Firefox, that<br>
many people have become used to working with two browsers: Normally they<br>
use Firefox, or their iPhone, or whatever, but when they want to user their<br>
bank's site and it doesn't work, they go to their Windows computer, and run<br>
IE specifically for that. Since 99% of the users (not 80%) have Windows and<br>
IE, only 1%, not 20%, are shut out. The other 19% may be slightly annoyed,<br>
but not much more.<br>
<br>
Your argument might better apply to sites whose business case especially<br>
depends on non-IE browsers - e.g., sites intended for mobile users who use<br>
iPhone or android or opera or whatever, not IE. But I assume that these<br>
sort of sites already check that they work on their intended client<br>
machines...<br>
<font color="#888888"><br></font></blockquote><div>There is another market share, the fast "trend adopting" -<br>If few years ago it was 15-25 % geeks, today it is students/Women (lost the research)/High Tech/Buzz people :<br>
<br> Just take a look on the IPhone owners / netbook owners, do you really wish to loose around 40% of your potential market share ?! <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
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