[documentation] Browser stats in the handbook

[Steven Peck]

My site has a high percentage of non IE browsers on non windows
systems.  My sister in laws site has primarily windows with IE or
firefox.

Browser stats are per site/audience.  Perhaps an article on that
rather then a fixed estimate from one particular source?

Steven Peck

On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 1:39 PM, Addison Berry <drupal at rocktreesky.com> wrote:
> Hm, that I don't know. I think any stats are pretty unreliable since
>  different sites will get different stats. The W3C stats are taken from
>  their server logs so of course that is going to be skewed to the "web-
>  savvy" side. I've not ever researched the bigger picture so I'm not
>  sure if there is a "definite" or best source.
>
>  IE6 usage on my personal site is only 6%. ;-)
>
>  - Addi
>
>
>
>  On Mar 22, 2008, at 3:57 PM, Bill Fitzgerald wrote:
>
>  > Hello, Addi --
>  >
>  > RE: "well obviously the numbers will change. I think we shouldn't
>  > include this info at all really."
>  >
>  > Agreed -- are the W3Schools numbers reliable, or is there a better
>  > source?
>  >
>  > Cheers,
>  >
>  > Bill
>  >
>  > Addison Berry wrote:
>  >> Hm, well obviously the numbers will change. I think we shouldn't
>  >> include this info at all really. Is there a compelling reason for us
>  >> to supply that info in our handbook? If we do keep it, then we should
>  >> just link off "here is a list of common browser usage" or something
>  >> rather than feeling like we need to check and update the numbers
>  >> every
>  >> few months.
>  >>
>  >> - Addi
>  >>
>  >> On Mar 22, 2008, at 3:00 PM, Bill Fitzgerald wrote:
>  >>
>  >>
>  >>> Hello, all,
>  >>>
>  >>> I was looking into browser stats -- The numbers at W3Schools at
>  >>> http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp are different
>  >>> than
>  >>> the handbook numbers at http://drupal.org/node/61509
>  >>>
>  >>> Where are we getting our numbers? Should I update them to be more in
>  >>> line with the stats at W3Sschools?
>  >>>
>  >>> Or is there a better source that we can use, and link to?
>  >>>
>  >>> If someone has good info, feel free to post here, and I'll be glad
>  >>> to
>  >>> make the updates.
>  >>>
>  >>> Cheers,
>  >>>
>  >>> Bill
>  >>>
>  >>> --
>  >>> Bill Fitzgerald
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