This isn’t meant to be a geek blog, but I want to vent a little here. I contacted the manager of a commercial website yesterday to point out the site didn’t render properly in Linux.
It’s the first site I have ever come across which does not view sensibly in Linux. The response:
“Thanks for letting us know. Based on the fact that only .36% of our traffic originates from Linux users, we cannot currently justify the time, money and manpower to amend this issue. We can look into adding this to future tasks.”
Sorry for pointing it out.
I suspect it is a simple stylesheet issue related to fonts. I could probably do it myself and a professional web developer should be able to fix it in half an hour.
It’s interesting only 0.36% of visitors to that site are Linux users (guess why). I checked my own stats and 1.24% of people come here from Linux desktops, admittedly from a much smaller base.
But according to these stats, 1.89% of worldwide desktops use Linux. This source puts the number at 0.67%.
Surprisingly to me, 0.71% of my visitors use Windows 98. I didn’t know anyone still used Windows 98.
Good Blog. I will continue reading it in the future. Nice layout too.
Aaron Wakling
Twitter: delmerw
says:
About half the computers in our building still run 98. That will change this summer when we all move to XP.
We still have some Windows 3.1 running in-house built software on PCs that need ISA slots for special cards. (They are non-networked.)
And a DOS 6.2 machine controls our Pick-N-Place machine which puts ICs on printed circuit boards. (This one hardly counts, I know. But I do have to keep DOS disks on hand … just in case.)
Twitter: mgorey
says:
I had Windows 98 on my first home PC. Next time I bought a PC it was Windows ME. I still have that on an old laptop.
I prefer XP over Vista.