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August 1, 2007

Just Curious II

Web browser: which one do you use?

Do you have an iPhone?

Cindy

Comments

What are ya, writin' a book?

I use Firefox daily and Konqueror whenever I need a file manager at the same time (often).

As far as development goes I have pretty much everything going back to Netscape 4 available for testing. Off the top of my head... NN4, Mozilla, Firefox, IE 5-7, Opera, Safari (did you know they ported it to Windows?). Hell, I think I have Amaya and Lynx buried on a drive someday.

Overall, I prefer Firefox in a UNIX environment and an older Opera for Windows.

You can find out for yourself by checking the user agent string in your logs. This isn't perfect because some browsers lie but you can get a rough idea of how your viewers are trending.

As far as iPhones go -- you gotta be kidding -- I haven't even seen my phone in three days and an iPhone is like a months food.

Brain matter deposited by: Al on August 1, 2007 10:32 AM

Internet Explorer 7.0
No iPhone for me. I'm too poor for such gadgets. They're nice, much better than I thought they'd be, but for how I use the computer, it'd be pretty useless without the programs I need.

Brain matter deposited by: susan on August 1, 2007 1:02 PM

firefox. when desperate, internet exploder.

an iphone ? wassat ?

Brain matter deposited by: zed on August 1, 2007 3:24 PM

Yo Al - maybe I am (writing a book.) In the meantime, I can check the raw logs all I want, but it isn't going to link my readers to their browser, is it (that's why I asked.)

Susan, Zoe & Al again: I asked about the iPhone because at least ONE of my readers is looking at this blog via an iPhone. I want to know who has it; I know one person who has it (a loaner aka perk of his job) but I doubt he's using it to lookie here.

Brain matter deposited by: Cindy on August 1, 2007 4:48 PM

I use firefox and Safari (some times the MS Explorer, but I do not like that one)

I do not own an iPhone, think they are far to expansive for what ya get. Love Apple but it ain't a religion for me.
I use a Samsung i600 black jack at the moment and I am happy with it

Brain matter deposited by: Joost Plattel on August 2, 2007 5:17 AM

Firefox for the heavy lifting with the occasional bit of the Safari 3 beta thrown in.

No iPhone for me -- they ain't comin' to Oz anytime soon (and I'm not going to pay $700 bucks for one).

Would you like me to confuse your logs and sprinkle in some Commodore 64 or Nokia E61 user agents? :)

Brain matter deposited by: Greg on August 2, 2007 9:21 AM

At work I have to use IE. I'm currently using at home too because I haven't gotten around to re-installing Firefox (new PC).

I don't have an IPhone and have no intentions of getting one.

Brain matter deposited by: Kat on August 2, 2007 12:40 PM

iPhone she no work down under.

Safari 3 / Firefox beta / Camino beta.

I have a Mac at work as well as at home :-)

Brain matter deposited by: Ozg on August 2, 2007 10:40 PM

I forgot to explain that the reason iPhone will not be available down under is that Telstra (the main carrier) predicted it will be a massive failure.

Telstra is good at predicting such things:
- no-one will be using a Mac by 2001 so we don't need to support them
- iTunes will never work
- iTunes will never sell more than a couple of hundred songs down under
- Safari is limited to one platform so we don't need to test it for our pages

I guess that means the iPhone will be really successful then....

Are you enjoying yours?

Brain matter deposited by: Ozg on August 2, 2007 10:43 PM

For the record, I do NOT have an iPhone, nor do I plan to purchase one.

Brain matter deposited by: Cindy on August 3, 2007 6:53 AM