IMHO it's possible to do pages that look passable on AOL & Prodigy,
good on Mosaic 2 Final and great on Internet explorer and Netscape.
It take some thought, and in some cases browser specifc pages (anybody
claiming to be a web developer who can't write the cgi to do this should
quit now ;-).
To support this here are some stats from a smallish (~2500 session)
sample of software.net users:
Breakdown of clients accounting for more than 1% in the sample period.
2495 Sessions
307 12.30% Mozilla/1.1N (Windows; I; 16bit)
247 9.90% IWENG/1.2.000 via proxy gateway CERN-HTTPD/3.0 libwww/2.17
171 6.85% Mozilla/1.22 (Windows; I; 16bit)
146 5.85% Mozilla/1.2N (Windows; I; 16bit)
146 5.85% Mozilla/1.22 (Windows; I; 32bit)
123 4.93% Mozilla/1.1N (Macintosh; I; 68K)
123 4.93% Mozilla/1.0N (Windows)
116 4.65% Mozilla/1.2N (Windows; I; 32bit)
82 3.29% Mozilla/1.1N (Macintosh; I; PPC)
67 2.69% aolbrowser/1.0 InterCon-Web-Library/1.1 (Macintosh; 68K) via
proxy gateway CERN-HTTPD/3.0 libwww/2.17
56 2.24% IWENG/1.2.003 via proxy gateway CERN-HTTPD/3.0 libwww/2.17
46 1.84% Microsoft Internet Explorer/4.40.308 (Windows 95)
43 1.72% AIR_Mosaic(16bit)/v1.00.198.07
38 1.52% Lynx/2.3 BETA libwww/2.14
36 1.44% Microsoft Internet Explorer/4.40.474beta (Windows 95)
29 1.16% NetCruiser/V2.00
26 1.04% Mozilla/1.1N (Windows; I; 16bit) via proxy gateway
CERN-HTTPD/3.0 libwww/2.17
26 1.04% Lynx/2.3.7 BETA libwww/2.14
Notice how much AOL (IWENG) traffic we get!
Oh and BTW Explorer 474beta supports SSL and Set-Cookie:
John Pettitt jpp@software.net
VP Engineering +1 415 473 3065 (V)
CyberSource Corporation +1 415 473 3066 (F)
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