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Harlan Messinger wrote: [excessive quotation, always a useful indicator] Absent any particular reason to think that the millions of otherwise diverse people with IE6 have substantially different browsing habits from the millions of otherwise diverse people with IE7, it's a reasonably good estimate You verbosely try to put the burden of proof on anyone who asks what you base your statements on. That isn't a gut feeling, it's a statistically sound observation. You haven't expressed anything statistical. Just some babbling followed by a claim on being "statistically sound". |
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Everyday experience is enough here, naturally assuming that your world of experience contains so-called normal users. |
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We don't _need_ any statistics for deciding that we still have IE 6 users with us. Still less we need off-topic pseudo-statistics. |
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Harlan Messinger wrote: Lies, blatant lies, statistics, Internet statistics - do you really want to go that way? If, for example, the statistics for a government website that receives over 40,000 visits a day show that 28% of the requests from IE are currently from IE6 (as is the case), the actual usage may be 35% or 25% or 20% Or something else. Moreover, which "actual usage"? Usage when accessing that site, or web access in general? One site's statistics, even if it were meaningful in its own context, says nothing about another site's usage. |
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So the information is useful as long as one is aware of the margin of error involved. please don't use pseudostatistical terms like "margin of error". |
#13
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In article <DytCk.70808$_03.66... (AT) reader1 (DOT) news.saunalahti.fi>, *"Jukka K. Korpela" <jkorp... (AT) cs (DOT) tut.fi> wrote: Harlan Messinger wrote: Lies, blatant lies, statistics, Internet statistics - do you really want to go that way? If, for example, the statistics for a government website that receives over 40,000 visits a day show that 28% of the requests from IE are currently from IE6 (as is the case), the actual usage may be 35% or 25% or 20% Or something else. Moreover, which "actual usage"? Usage when accessingthat site, or web access in general? One site's statistics, even if it were meaningful in its own context, says nothing about another site's usage. So? If you were to employ a principle of charitable interpretation - not your strong point, I know, - you would extend HM's point in a reasonable rather than an unreasonable way to cover sites in general. The point is this, if lots of stats were coming in for individual sites (say big well known ones), and one made a rough average, then this rough average might still be useful within a rough margin of error assessment. No, not useless, useful. Useful. Enough for a rational person to think, "Hmm, clearly better not ignore IE6's little peccadillos yet on this site I am making; given that I see no special type of audience different to the sorts that use the websites in the stats." Look, the truth is not that you don't understand stats (as a justifiably irritated HM said) but that you ... well.. you are just being you. In As Good As It Gets, Helen Hunt, in exasperation says about Jack Nicholson, who is one doozie of an awkward dude, that she wished he would stop being himself for a moment. So the information is useful as long as one is aware of the margin of error involved. please don't use pseudostatistical terms like "margin of error". It is hardly *this* in the context of this audience. -- dorayme |
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Maybe the best approach would be to use an analysis system as Google Analytics on the web site and check over time what browsers and even screen size are the users using and how the evolution is for that web site and then update the web site over time according to it ... |
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In article 6f131dc4-3591-4511-80fc-f8968a749... (AT) d1g2000hsg (DOT) googlegroups.com>, *shapper <mdmo... (AT) gmail (DOT) com> wrote: Maybe the best approach would be to use an analysis system as Google Analytics on the web site and check over time what browsers and even screen size are the users using and how the evolution is for that web site and then update the web site over time according to it ... The best approach is to keep worrying about IE6 until it becomes obvious that you should not. Never mind all this fine argy bargy. Why would you need to update a website that satisfies IE6 if it already satisfies other better browsers? -- dorayme |
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