[Haifux] [HAIFUX Workshop] The Web Rant Workshop

[guy keren]

Nadav Har'El 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.

this may be true for monopolistic sites that have no alternative (e.g. 
government sites, possibly your bank's site, etc.).

for sites that have competition, users with firefox will likely go to 
whichever of them that has firefox support.

--guy