For your interest I enclose percentage browser stats for the last 6 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 MSIE 3.9 3.6 5.8 6.4 5.2 5.7 7.3 7.5 Mosaic 3.1 3.1 2.9 3.0 2.4 2.0 1.8 1.6 NetScape 0.9 1.6 0.8 0.9 0.5 0.6 0.4 0.3 0.2 NetScape 1 7.0 4.2 3.0 2.5 2.8 2.0 1.1 0.9 NetScape 1.1 30.3 25.8 21.7 18.3 14.9 12.6 9.0 7.8 NetScape 1.2 22.7 19.1 16.9 11.8 13.4 9.8 6.7 6.8 NetScape 2 26.8 37.2 44.0 51.3 50.4 53.3 53.4 52.7 NetScape 3 0 0 0.1 2.2 6.0 11.1 17.8 20.2 All other browsers are very small. About 2000 variants of browsers were logged over the 8 months! Note the falling % for Moaic. Currently, NetScape seems to register 89% of hits but some browsers which are not NetScape register as such so 89% could be too high if I've missed some that show this behaviour. Version 3 was 20% last month. Version 2 is showing signs of dropping as version 3 picks up while the proportion of version 1 users is dropping slowly. My current favourite, MS InterNet Explorer is steady but less than 8%. Just over 80% 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 PC 64.3 62.3 61.9 59.9 63.2 62.6 59.4 66.7 Unix 11.9 12.9 12.1 12.4 15.6 13.6 12.6 12.1 The percentages of the 3 main platforms are holding fairly steady, but it looks like Mac users take more holidays than PC users! (That doesn't sem to have included me unfortunately.) 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)