Firefox users turned away from 10% of top UK sites 16854

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A few years back here, many people used to say that they would remove their custom from companies who refused to support open standards. By and large, they were loudly laughed at by the troll population, with the view that "well, it's only 10% - who cares about them?". I've always been convinced that excluding 10% of a market is a foolish thing to do without some good reason, and failure to follow standards would not, in my view, be a good reason.

Well, Firefox is by far the fastest growing browser, just as linux is the fastest growing OS. I suspect that open office is the fastest growing office suite, and mutt is obviously widely used. I'm always interested in which companies don't follow standards, because I just won't use them any more, and I'll tell everyone I knowwhyI don't use them. Now, maybe it'll make a difference, and maybe it won't, but for a certainty, I have nothing to lose, the companies have a lot to lose.

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