Apart from the issues we’ve seen when attempting to contact web sites belonging to digitalcircle.org, momentumni.org and investni.com when you do something as simple as omitting the ‘www’, I’m presented with this…
Renders badly in Firefox and Safari. Renders okay in Internet Explorer.
Come on guys…I know a couple of web developers who would fix this lickety-split.
I run Google Analytics on a few of my web sites and notice the following trends.
| Site | Firefox | Safari | I.E. | Other |
| quayperformance.com | 41% | 30% | 26% | 3% |
| nimug.org | 23% | 54% | 21% | 2% |
| lategaming.com | 54% | 7% | 36% | 3% |
| host.io | 43% | 25% | 7% | 25% |
These stats tell me quite simply that Firefox is dominant in every market except very Mac-specific markets. I’m sure this is partly due to the very aggressive push from the Mozilla corporation on Firefox but also because Firefox is more reliable and it’s working against the momentum of people who won’t update their anti-virus definitions never mind install a new web browser.
I don’t use Firefox much though I updated to version 3 when it was released. I prefer to use Safari. For the most part the macro-rendering of web sites is pretty identical. They both do things well, are compliant with standards and therefore web sites designed and tested for them present the widest field of accessibility.
In comparison, the legacy of web sites out there designed for Internet Explorer will become more and more incompatible as the old IE rendering model declines further and further into obscurity. Companies which do not act will be part of a ghetto of web pages which represent the very worst of design.
What do your stats say?
I can’t believe that craftsmanship was allowed out the door… looks like the min-widths of the structural divs don’t add up properly…