[Haifux] [HAIFUX Workshop] The Web Rant Workshop

[Boris shtrasman]

On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 10:27 AM, Nadav Har'El <nyh at math.technion.ac.il>wrote:

> On Fri, Apr 23, 2010, Oron Peled wrote about "Re: [Haifux] [HAIFUX
> Workshop] The Web Rant Workshop":
> > E.g: the COO may get really pissed off to find that with all the
> > money thrown at the company website, the result cause ~20% of potential
> > visitor to stay out.
>
> But can you honestly tell him that?
>
> The sad truth is so many Israeli sites don't work properly in Firefox, that
> many people have become used to working with two browsers: Normally they
> use Firefox, or their iPhone, or whatever, but when they want to user their
> bank's site and it doesn't work, they go to their Windows computer, and run
> IE specifically for that. Since 99% of the users (not 80%) have Windows and
> IE, only 1%, not 20%, are shut out. The other 19% may be slightly annoyed,
> but not much more.
>
> Your argument might better apply to sites whose business case especially
> depends on non-IE browsers - e.g., sites intended for mobile users who use
> iPhone or android or opera or whatever, not IE. But I assume that these
> sort of sites already check that they work on their intended client
> machines...
>
> There is another market share, the fast "trend adopting" -
If few years ago it was 15-25 % geeks, today it is students/Women (lost the
research)/High Tech/Buzz people :

 Just take a look on the IPhone owners / netbook owners, do you really wish
to loose around 40% of your potential market share ?!

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