[Gimp-web] Netscape 4.x (was Re: anyone try the news out?)

[Raphaël Quinet]

On Wed, 2 Apr 2003 22:30:44 +0200, Raphaël Quinet <quinet@gamers.org> wrote:
> - First, the new site is broken when viewed in Netscape 4.x (and some
>   other browsers, but Netscape 4.x is probably the only one that is
>   still used by a significant number of GIMP users).  I had a quick
>   look at the logs of the current server for www.gimp.org, and I see
>   that there are several dozens of unique visitors per day that are
>   still using Netscape 4.x (the majority is using MSIE, of course).
>   We should not have a site that is unusable with this browser, [...]

Quick follow-up to my own post...

For those who like statistics, I had another look at the stats for
today.  In the last 6 hours, there were 103 unique IP addresses using
Netscape 4 and visiting www.gimp.org.  I excluded the user-agents
containing "MSIE", "compatible", "Opera" or some strings commonly used
by agents faking their identity (such as those using only the string
"Mozilla/4.0" without any other attributes).  In the last two days,
there were more than 300 unique visitors using Netscape 4.

I don't want to put too much load on the server by analyzing all
previous log files, but a random sampling of some older logs shows
that the number of Netscape 4 visitors is usually in a similar range.
There are a bit more Opera users, 5 to 8 times more Mozilla users (or
Netscape 6 and 7) and 20 to 30 times more MSIE users, but in any case
we cannot ignore that old (and broken) browser...

Note: there are lies, damn lies, and statistics.  ;-)

-Raphaël