![]() Even Yahoo offers a limited experience to users using old browsers, and facebook throws "get a better browser" messages up if you visit with IE6. Hell I remember not being able to access using IE 3 in 1998! If microsoft dropped IE 3 support a decade ago, surely most of the web can as well. What's more, even the biggest sites don't offer an A-grade experience for older browsers. That's about 0.1% of our IE users, and 0.05% of our total users.Īlso, I've caught obvious UA spoofing in our logs - one script reported a different, random UA with every request - many of which were browsers you'll never actually see in the wild - like "Lotus Notes web client" Out of 2.9 million hits from IE browsers on our most active site since the beginning of the month, roughly 5200 are from versions of IE older than 6. (And there are many Macs out there that are too old to run Mac OS 9 they'll be running 8.6 or some such.) I bought her Mac OS X Tiger for Christmas (Leopard won't run on her G3), then visited soon after and installed it for her, then downloaded and installed all the updates.Īll of these are reasons that I plan for Ogg Frog to support the Classic Mac OS. Until very recently a relative of mine was running Internet Explorer 5.0 on Mac OS X 10.2 - no doubt riddled with well-known security holes, but she simply didn't know better. If the software is useful enough to the end user, then they'll keep running Mac OS 9.įinally, some people simply don't know how to upgrade. Some software has been discontinued, with the vendors out of business, and so will never be ported to OS X-native. Some of those who could buy the hardware have a big investment in software that uses Apple Desktop Bus (ADB) dongles that wouldn't work on OS X even if the newer Macs were equipped with ADB - they haven't been for years. Some people cannot afford the new hardware required for Mac OS X. At least that's what I find for my sites - and it's been that way for a long time. If you analyzer your logs with a tool such as Analog, you'll find that a significant number of your web sites' visitors are still running Explorer or Netscape versions 3 or 4.
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