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Re: where to find web browser statistics information?



On Thu, May 18, 2000 at 04:11:42PM +0500, Vlad Harchev wrote:
> I need information about user agents used for surfing WWW (especially
> lynx).  Where I can find it? I searched yahoo, and all pages with
> stats that are reachable from that search results page are either old
> or meaningless or are for very specific sites (like universities). Is
> there any integrated stats or stats for some general-purpose sites,
> that are not older than several monthes?

i don't have a direct answer for you, but if you're trying to justify
(to bosses or to a web design team or whoever) why pages should be made
as browser-neutral as possible, and should be viewable on lynx then take
a look at http://www.anybrowser.org/

one big reason why lynx-compatible web pages are important is for
disabled users such as the blind (or almost blind) - for some people,
a text-mode browser and a speech synthesizer is the ONLY way they can
access the web.

i don't know what your laws are like in russia, but here in australia
you can get hit with a discrimination lawsuit(*) if you don't support
use by the disabled - it's pretty much mandated on government web
servers, and large corporate sites (e.g. banks) would be taking a big
risk if their internet service did not cater to the disabled.


(*) the lawsuit isn't guarranteed to win, but there is
anti-discrimination legislation which applies.

craig

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craig sanders



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