For your interest I enclose percentage browser stats for the last 9 months here. There's all sorts of reasons why these numbers aren't scientific but the apparent trends are interesting anyway. You may find these numbers helpful when deciding what features to implement on your pages. Browsers vers Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep MSIE 3.9 3.6 5.8 6.4 5.2 5.7 7.3 7.5 9.8 Mosaic 3.1 3.1 2.9 3.0 2.4 2.0 1.8 1.6 1.1 NetScape 0.9 1.6 0.8 0.9 0.5 0.6 0.4 0.3 0.2 0.1 NetScape 1 7.0 4.2 3.0 2.5 2.8 2.0 1.1 0.9 1.0 NetScape 1.1 30.3 25.8 21.7 18.3 14.9 12.6 9.0 7.8 4.8 NetScape 1.2 22.7 19.1 16.9 11.8 13.4 9.8 6.7 6.8 6.0 NetScape 2 26.8 37.2 44.0 51.3 50.4 53.3 53.4 52.7 44.8 NetScape 3 0 0 0.1 2.2 6.0 11.1 17.8 20.2 29.7 All other browsers are very small. About 2300 variants of browsers were logged over the 9 months! Note the falling % for Moaic. NetScape Version 3 use is increasing rapidly. Version 2 is dropping as version 3 picks up while the proportion of version 1 users is also dropping slowly. MS InterNet Explorer (all versions) is slowly rising and is now around 10%. About 85% of all hits come from [NetScape v2 or better + MSIE] and given that MSIE is at least as capable as NetScape 2, so we are fast approaching a point at which NetScape version 2 capabilities can be assumed. Platform Macintosh 23.2 23.5 24.9 25.5 19.6 22.3 26.7 19.8 18.3 PC 64.3 62.3 61.9 59.9 63.2 62.6 59.4 66.7 71.8 Unix 11.9 12.9 12.1 12.4 15.6 13.6 12.6 12.1 9.0 The percentages of the 3 main platforms are holding fairly steady, but PC numbers increased relative to both Macs and UNIX. ***However*** the September stats are not quite on the same basis as earlier months as my site is taking far more hits from the USA than before after the installation of a redirection to the Sheffield WebElements site from the Berkeley WebElements mirror site rather than Berkeley operating its own WebElements mirror. Dr Mark J Winter (Deputy Head of Department, Director of Studies) Department of Chemistry, The University, Sheffield S3 7HF, England tel: +44 (0)114 282 4498 fax: +44 (0)114 273 8673 e-m: M.Winter@Sheffield.ac.uk http://www.shef.ac.uk/~chem/staff/mjw/mark-winter.html WebElements is the periodic table on the world-wide web: http://www.shef.ac.uk/~chem/web-elements/ ----- chemweb: A list for Chemical Applications of the Internet. Archived as: http://www.ch.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/chemweb/ To unsubscribe, send to listserver@ic.ac.uk the following message; unsubscribe chemweb List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (rzepa@ic.ac.uk)