Richard Cornford wrote on 07 jul 2003 in comp.lang.javascript
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On the other hand, if you want to promote your decision with dubious
and meaningless labelled numbers then it doesn't seem unreasonable
that you be asked what those numbers are supposed to represent. You
are clearly unwilling or unable to contribute anything toward the
interpretation of those numbers and under those circumstances it would
be unwise for anybody to give them any credence.
Not at all. Netstat is a reputed firm. If those numbers are checked by
me with an indepandent asp procedure also on my pageses and give
reasonably the same answer, and tell me that more than 96% of my
audience uses IE, then it is reasonable to assume tat the real figure is
far above 50%. I even take the precaution to disable counting my own
IP's access, which can be heavy sometimes when testing a page online.
Who requires the global audience to do anything, not me, you ?
In that context the "required" would be - by a potential employers or
clients.
As I told you, I have no employer nor clients at hhis site.
<btw>
Why do you say the global audience is English reading? ...
I did not. I was conceding that although your post was globally
distributed the fact that it was written in English implied that it
was not addressed at a non-English reading audience.
I think this is an unreasonable conclusion. Many programmers of
non-English sites like to have their tech-talk in an international space
and use this and other NGs, reading and answering in threads in any
language of their personal multilingual ability.
As I showed earlier as example that French site about an Latin lost
letter, being an unilingual has its disadvantages, surely in scope,
sometimes in understanding that scope.
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