Webalizer reveals that of the top 25 user agents to visit wanderinghorse.net in October, less than 3.3% of the agents were MSIE. Those were about equally divided between MSIE 6.0 and 7.0. However, of those top 25 user agents, a whopping 37.4% of them were Firefox, mostly version 2.0.0.7 with some 2.0.0.6 and 2.0.0.8 thrown in for variety. (Even though 2.0.0.8 is only a week or so old, approx 4% out of that 37.4% are using it, which speaks well of Firefox users’ up-to-datedness.)

That’s 11 TIMES as many Firefox visitors as MSIE visitors.

Interestingly, the vast majority (approximately 30% out of that 37.4%) are Windows users, revealing that MS may own the desktop, but they certainly don’t own the browser market any more.

My guess is that only a few major sites (e.g. microsoft.com) are seeing an opposite trend.

What about the rest of the 100%? No single agent outside the top 25 accounted for more than 0.65% of October’s traffic, so they’re not being counted. They’re scattered amongst all sorts of flavors of all user agents, including bots and OS/X (which we can also safely categorize as bots, since Mac users tend to do whatever Apple says they should).

If we average out the numbers, ignoring those agents not in the top 25, Firefox accounts for nearly 90%(!!!) of the traffic and MSIE accounts for a measly 8% or so.

While i’m not naive enough to say that the browser wars are over, it does indeed seem that MSIE’s dominance is truly a thing of the past.

stephan@ludo ~/WinHome/navigating.de/s11n-win32/test
$ ../Debug/s11nconvert.exe -K
51191011 compact funtxt funxml parens simplexml wesnoth

stephan@ludo ~/WinHome/navigating.de/s11n-win32/test
$ for i in $(../Debug/s11nconvert.exe -K); do

../Debug/s11nconvert.exe -f in.sxml -s $i -o in.$i; done

stephan@ludo ~/WinHome/navigating.de/s11n-win32/test
$ l
total 256
drwxr-xr-x 2 stephan Kein   0 Aug  7 22:09 .
drwxr-xr-x 6 stephan Kein   0 Aug  6 18:18 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 stephan Kein 263 Aug  7 22:24 in.51191011
-rw-r--r-- 1 stephan Kein 263 Aug  7 22:24 in.compact
-rw-r--r-- 1 stephan Kein 223 Aug  7 22:24 in.funtxt
-rw-r--r-- 1 stephan Kein 343 Aug  7 22:24 in.funxml
-rw-r--r-- 1 stephan Kein 214 Aug  7 22:24 in.parens
-rw-r--r-- 1 stephan Kein 241 Aug  7 22:24 in.simplexml
-rw-r--r-- 1 stephan Kein 239 Aug 28  2005 in.sxml
-rw-r--r-- 1 stephan Kein 253 Aug  7 22:24 in.wesnoth

stephan@ludo ~/WinHome/navigating.de/s11n-win32/test
$ cat in.funtxt
#SerialTree 1
s11n_node class=streamable_map
{
item_0 Item #0
item_1 Item #1
item_2 Item #2
item_3 Item #3
item_4 Item #4
item_5 Item #5
item_6 Item #6
item_7 Item #7
item_8 Item #8
item_9 Item #9
}

At some point i’ll release a zip file containing the project/solution files and source code.

[A few hours later...]

A zip file containing a VCExpress solution file and a precompiled copy of s11nconvert can be found here:

https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=104450

So… i use Open Source operating systems whenever possible, primarily Suse’s distribution of [GNU/]Linux.

So… if you’re a Windows user and an s11n user, and willing to commit to 1-2 hours of work, i would be happy to walk you through the necessary steps of porting. Alternately, provide the s11n.net project with legal copies of the required tools (e.g., Windows XP, MS Dev Studio 7.1+, and a hard drive to put them on), and i will personally commit to the port.