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 MSIE 3.9 3.6 5.8 6.4 5.2 5.7 7.3 Mosaic 3.1 3.1 2.9 3.0 2.4 2.0 1.8 NetScape 0.9 1.6 0.8 0.9 0.5 0.6 0.4 0.3 NetScape 1 7.0 4.2 3.0 2.5 2.8 2.0 1.1 NetScape 1.1 30.3 25.8 21.7 18.3 14.9 12.6 9.0 NetScape 1.2 22.7 19.1 16.9 11.8 13.4 9.8 6.7 NetScape 2 26.8 37.2 44.0 51.3 50.4 53.3 53.4 NetScape 3 0 0 0.1 2.2 6.0 11.1 17.8 All other browsers are very small. Currently, NetScape seems to register 88% of hits but some browsers which are not NetScape register as such so 88% could be too high if I've missed some that show this behaviour. Version 3 (beta) was 18% last month. Version 2 is steady at present but the proportion of version 1 users is dropping steadily. My current favourite, MS InterNet Explorer is steady but less than 8%. Nearly 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 PC 64.3 62.3 61.9 59.9 63.2 62.6 59.4 Unix 11.9 12.9 12.1 12.4 15.6 13.6 12.6 The percentages of the 3 main platforms are holding fairly steady. 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)