Did I ever mention that I hate web browsers?

[perlmonger]

I discovered yesterday that IE/Mac copes not at all with javascript resources encoded as UTF-8+BOM; it encounters the BOM, thinks "you're havin' a larf" and buggers off back to its grave in Redmond. No warnings or errors; it just ignores the file altogether.

So. I thought that maybe it's time to finally consign the thing to the zombie browser bin: Netscape 4 is there for all but one site we host, and IE/Win 5.0 is teetering on its brink.

I've just analysed June's Mac stats to date on our busiest and most generally representative site, and the answer is... Not Yet.

Damnit.

browser	visits	views
Safari	49.34%	52.85%
IE/Mac	34.99%	31.47%
Gecko (Firefox/NS7)	15.67%	15.67%

Those figures exclude the real long tail of browser accesses: there are a few visits from Opera, Camino and MozillaSeaMonkey, even some from Netscape 4 and (goddess help me) five visits from something claiming to be "Mozilla/3.04Gold (Macintosh; I; PPC)"

For completeness, Mac hits were 4.9% of total visits, 5.7% of total views for the first 20 days of June.

[EDIT] having browsed further through the tail, there are hits from MSIE 4.01 and MSIE 4.5 in there too: who are these people? ;)

Comments

[dkmnow.livejournal.com]

Hmm. I tried Opera years ago, but it hadn't occurred to me to try it again.

Will do. Thanks for the rec.

:-)