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mj1256;114165do you have a link for where I can get the clean install

no Mickysoft has stopped dls and registrations 9th Feb PM me and I’ll talk about it further don’t want to clog the thread
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great article from computerworld magazine

read full article

if your a developer and you don’t get this mag, you should, and right now you can get it for free.

<blockquote> A recent report issued by browser vendor Opera Software ASA showed that the average page on the Web strays from WC3 page markup specifications 47 times. Overall, just 4.13% of the 3.5 million Web pages Opera searched were fully standards-compliant when tested against the W3C validation suite.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Microsoft’s Internet Explorer doesn’t dominate the browser market in the way it once did, but it still has the largest market share by far. IE currently accounts for about 70% of the browsers in use, down from a high of about 95% in the pre-Firefox days. Of that 70%, about half are running IE7 while about one quarter are still using IE6 or earlier versions.

Idiosyncrasies in the various versions of IE — especially IE6 — have created problems for other browser vendors and Web developers. Even Microsoft has struggled to maintain backward compatibility with bugs, nonstandard methods and other issues it has created for itself. As a result, Microsoft has had to drag along an installed base of corporate and public Web sites that were built to the quirks of its previous browsers, trapping itself into endless iterations of standards noncompliance to provide backward compatibility.</blockquote>

<blockquote>The four biggest competitors to IE — Firefox, Safari, Opera and Chrome — have their share of problems as well, but they pale in comparison to the problems surrounding IE — particularly earlier versions such as IE6. “There are slight differences between Firefox and Safari and Chrome but they are very minor,” says Koch.

But there are problems. Firefox is the No. 2 browser on the market, with a share of about 20%. While Firefox follows standards, it is not perfect. For example, Web sites may write to Firefox-specific properties, such as the Gecko DOM Range.comparePoint method and other similar events, says Bruce Lawson, Web evangelist at Opera</blockquote>

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Interesting article Mj.

IE currently accounts for about 70% of the browsers in use, down from a high of about 95% in the pre-Firefox days. Of that 70%, about half are running IE7 while about one quarter are still using IE6 or earlier versions.

If you cut out all ‘techy’ sites and computer sites (where you would have a lot of PC savvy users) then this figure goes way up. On my business site I have 80% using IE and 14% on FF. Of that 80% – 27% are still using IE6. This means I actually have twice as many IE6 visitors than FF visitors.

Interesting too that after all these years Opera still only comes in at 0.18%. IE8 and Chrome have passed it out already.

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