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Skriven 2006-06-07 23:10:00 av Robert E Starr JR (2483.babylon5)
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>>On Wed, 7 Jun 2006 11:09:35 -0400, Josh Hill wrote
(in article <ipjd82djbtbbsovf987e947srn8a1tticp@4ax.com>):

> On Tue, 6 Jun 2006 03:52:51 +0000 (UTC), "Carl" <cengman7@hotmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> 
>> The interesting thing about PCs is that you accumulate things.  Very few 
>> people
>> use a PC and keep only the same software they first installed.  It was much 
>> more
>> common before people got connected to the internet, but now a lot of people
>> get different software from all over the place.
> 
> Well, no, but when MS includes something like a free browser most
> people /do/ keep it, as witness the fact that even today the vast
> majority of people use IE rather than the probably superior Firefox.<<

This is absolutely correct.  As a web designer, I work with the most 
extremely average of users every day, and nobody, but nobody - nobody who 
isn't a programmer - ever uses anything but the browser that comes installed 
with their system.

My favorite illustrative story is when I was trying to help a customer with 
something dumb - it was probably how to do a hard refresh, as 90% of the time 
the problem is that my customers say they can't see the changes I've made to 
their site <g> - over the phone, and what I was telling them to do wasn't 
working.  So I asked again, "Uh, you _did_ say you were using IE, right?"  
And the customer said yes.  So we went around a few more times, and it 
_still_ didn't work.  So finally I told them to look at the top of their 
screen, to the right of the blue apple, and to tell me what it said.  Yup, 
you guessed it: Safari.

But she was so used to having IE that she just called _any_ browser "Internet 
Explorer."  (Then there's the AOL users and _their_ browser problems, and the 
fact that they can't receive .jpg attachments from Mail.app...)

Of course, this was in the early days of Safari when many of my customers 
still didn't have new Macs that came with it installed, so I couldn't just 
_assume_ that Mac users were using Safari.  Now, it's much easier: anyone 
running OS X and a modern Mac is using Safari (unless they're programmers and 
then they're probably running several things, like me: Safara, Mozilla, IE, 
Firefox, Opera).

Amy
                                                                               
                  
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