npwsol - 8:26 pm on Aug 13, 2008 (gmt 0)

Ah, thanks Marcia. I feel like a fool, now; I took W3's data to be a compilation from various sources. Never read the disclaimer at the bottom of them. Not once in a few years of checking every now and again.

Rugles - Just for clarification, I'm primarily an Opera user. I advocate Firefox because it is a flat-out better product than IE is. I advocate Firefox to customers, friends, and family because it is a quality product. There is not a person left amongst my close group of friends who use IE after having tried Firefox. I don't use it because Opera is a better product, and I don't advocate Opera because it's a much more significant shift for regular users coming from IE7.

I understand the desire to make sure that your customers are having a great experience, but we do so at the expense of further stagnating the development of the web. If we spent a few minutes advocating firefox (or even just upgrading) to consumers we know we'd save ourselves a million headaches down the road. Remember that word of mouth thing?

But no, we don't want to upset the sea of money that is consumers. Progress means change, and change has the potential to be bad, rite?