22 Jun
2013
22 Jun
'13
4:19 p.m.
>> [...] the numerous broken websites out there
to still work with
>> browsers other than Firefox and Internet Explorer under MS Windows.
> That way something the hardcore did in the 1990s.
It's unheard-of
> now. I see a broken site a few times a /decade./
Tell that to Facebook, which still refuses to serve up any kind of
content to me when I try to script-fetch an image someone links me to
or some such, instead returning a redirect to a "you're using an
unsupported browser, use one of this half-dozen" (all, of course, are
thoroughly bloated monstrosities). I haven't bothered trying providing
a lying User-Agent: header, largely because it would be fairly
inconvenient for me to capture a sample header to base my forgery on.
I think Facebook hardly counts as "unheard-of".
I ran into this issue with Consumer Reports website
last year and
took the time to try to educate them. Their reply? "We outsource
our web administration and they can't fix it."
"You need to fire them and hire _competent_ web admins." (Yes, I
realize that's preaching to the choir. :/)
This means if you have a NAT router (who doesn't?)
I don't. Well, I do have NAT set up, but I don't have anything in the
NATted range except for a SIP phone.
and have say a Mac, and Windows PC, and a Linux
workstation, only the
first used in that sample window is going to be recorded, [...] This
affects usage numbers for the "less common" operating systems more
than the "more popular" operating systems, because operating systems
such as Microsoft Windows have a larger market share.
Actually, if you think of it as measuring "number of uses" rather than
"number of installed hosts", it's measuring exactly what it should be
measuring. (Measuring it imprecisely, because of the "first hit within
the sample window" effect, but that's what it's measuring.)
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