Firefox users turned away from 10% of top UK sites
How many sites in the US are not accessible by Firefox? ...
"Despite the increasing use of non-Internet Explorer web browsers, such as Opera or Firefox, one in ten UK websites still fails to provide proper access to anyone not using Microsoft's default offering, a study has found.
Web-testing firm SciVisum looked at 100 high profile UK sites, including Jobcentreplus.gov.uk, and the Odeon cinema chain's online presence. Neither of the two named is accessible by non-IE browsers, the firm says, along with one other, and seven others, including British-American Tobacco's site, use non-standard web coding that is generally only recognisable to Internet Explorer." continued ... (Via The Register)
"Despite the increasing use of non-Internet Explorer web browsers, such as Opera or Firefox, one in ten UK websites still fails to provide proper access to anyone not using Microsoft's default offering, a study has found.
Web-testing firm SciVisum looked at 100 high profile UK sites, including Jobcentreplus.gov.uk, and the Odeon cinema chain's online presence. Neither of the two named is accessible by non-IE browsers, the firm says, along with one other, and seven others, including British-American Tobacco's site, use non-standard web coding that is generally only recognisable to Internet Explorer." continued ... (Via The Register)
2 Comments:
web site testers like sciviSum are getting the ball rolling, but it seems to me that although I like Firefox, most days I get stuck on a site somewhere and end up running IE and firefox together - I mean 10% is probably an under statement.
Will IE7 mean a stack more web testing is needed, coz more sites will be broken using that too?
Rachel
Hi Rachel,
I think IE7 will work fine. Most web pages have been designed for IE and Microsoft will carry their basic code over to IE7. It's getting html to work with Opera and Mozilla that has been the problem and will probably continue to be one.
Bob
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