[Joe Bonforte]

Once a browser drops below around five percent, I would expect it to go on a slide to oblivion because, as the article pointed out, site designers no longer test for that browser. In our estimates, we add 20-25% extra cost for a site that supports both IE and Netscape. People were willing to pay that when Netscape had 25% or more market share. At less than 5%, I would not be surprised if we never do another project supporting Netscape.

[AdA$tra]

My clients are very happy telling their customers that Netscape is not supported in our Domino and Jwalk apps. Just as you said: 25% to 30% more expensive to make eveything work in both.

[APBaer]

"Once a browser drops below around five percent, I would expect it to go on a slide to oblivion"

I use Opera. You are correct that some sites do not make themselves totally compliant. I therefore hold Internet Explorer in reserve for such sites.

However, I find Opera is *so* superior to IE or any other browser that I find it worthwhile to use Opera as my standard and use IE on those less than 5% of the sites that do not render correctly with Opera.