yup

Although the tide may be turning... 2 years ago 93% of people used IE, now it's down to 86%. If that gets down to 75% then internet companies will start to take notice.

FF2 was released today to coincide with IE7.

I myself work for a company that makes student records software for universities, including a web portal for self-service for adminstrators, academics, students and other stakeholders, and we have to test and support multiple platforms - we generally test in IE, Firefox and Safari, on Windows and Mac systems.

We're a bit different though, as we are selling to the public sector, and the public sector has to ensure that users have maximum accessibility - including making web pages readable by "screen-reading" software, something to do with the disability discrimination act.

But private sector companies don't really have to give a s**t in general.

Posted By: Hull Canary on October 19th 2006 at 23:01:01

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FAO Hull Canary: you have something to do with the Official Shite? (NCFC) - BerlinCanary, Oct 19, 22:17:16
- Hi ya... (NCFC) - Hull Canary, Oct 19, 22:20:01
  - Yeah I did post the other day - no problem (NCFC) - BerlinCanary, Oct 19, 22:29:31
    - I suspect you're right (NCFC) - Hull Canary, Oct 19, 22:34:50
      - I usually use Safari or FireFox (NCFC) - BerlinCanary, Oct 19, 22:48:44
        
        I use Youseff or Ruel. (n/m) (NCFC) - lovely old job, Oct 19, 23:02:53
        
        HeeHee - not bad, LOJ (n/m) (NCFC) - BerlinCanary, Oct 19, 23:14:50
        
        also lolling (NCFC) - Hull Canary, Oct 19, 23:21:54
        
        yup (NCFC) - Hull Canary, Oct 19, 23:01:01
        
        Safari's a bit of an enigma (NCFC) - BerlinCanary, Oct 19, 23:12:35
        
        I guess it comes down to costs and benefits. You may remember the Ford Pinto (NCFC) - Hull Canary, Oct 19, 23:20:57
        
        The Pinto also never sold well in Brazil. (NCFC) - Arganth, Oct 19, 23:25:30
        
        Brilliant... also I think Nova means "No go" or "No speed" in Spanish (NCFC) - Hull Canary, Oct 19, 23:26:41
        
        I've got a load of these - let me see if I can dig them out... (n/m) (NCFC) - Arganth, Oct 19, 23:27:29
        
        Not easily found. Will look another day I think... (n/m) (NCFC) - Arganth, Oct 19, 23:31:03
        
        good plan (NCFC) - Hull Canary, Oct 19, 23:34:59
        
        Do you know... (NCFC) - Small, Oct 19, 23:11:19
        
        I know who he is (NCFC) - Hull Canary, Oct 19, 23:11:44
        
        Oh ok... (NCFC) - Small, Oct 19, 23:21:04
        
        At NU we had to make our CBTs available to screen reading software. (n/m) (NCFC) - Arganth, Oct 19, 23:08:28
        
        bloody annoying (NCFC) - Hull Canary, Oct 19, 23:11:15
        
        yaeh - we had to stop using Flash and go back to shitty HTML. (NCFC) - Arganth, Oct 19, 23:18:34
        
        especially when you're told that animation is the way to help people learn... (NCFC) - Hull Canary, Oct 19, 23:28:43
        
        Ah well - it's not my problem any more. (NCFC) - Arganth, Oct 19, 23:30:35
        
        oh well (NCFC) - Hull Canary, Oct 19, 23:34:45
        
        Indeed. (NCFC) - Arganth, Oct 19, 23:39:16

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