Like most web sites, www.lantica.com gathers some generalized statistics about our visitors. These help us know what web pages are popular, how we are doing with search engines, and what browsers are being used. I thought the other forum members might find some of these interesting. For example:

We track which Operating Systems visit the web pages:
48% XP
13% 2000
8% 98
5.6% Unix
2.13% ME
1.5 NT
0.21 95

I find it fascinating that Unix (mostly Linux and Irix) is outnumbering ME, NT, and 95 - nevermind that 98 is outnumbering ME by 4 to 1. The list above covers the more typical entries, but these are kind of interesting:

4.8% Web search robots
0.65% Macintoshes
0.03% Web TV
0.01% Amiga (I miss Amiga - what a great computer!)

The browsers showing up:

58% MSIE6
12.8% Mozilla
6.37% Netscape Compatible
5.38% MSIE5
2.98% Netscape 7
0.37% Netscape 4
0.07% MSIE4
0.02% Netscape 6

That takes care of the big boys, but we also had visits from:

1.08% Teleport Pro (an "offline" browser)
0.59% Konquerer (the browser built into Linux's KDE desktop)
0.35% Opera (I would've thought this would be a lot higher)
0.25% Safari (The Mac browser)
0.13% Avant

I'm using Firefox with Thunderbird (Mozilla "light") on my Irix box. The forum works very well - and (so far) every site I've tried has worked perfectly or nearly so.

Netscape 7.2 also works fine with the Forum on both Mac and PC.

Nestscape 4.72 does not appear to use the tags properly.

Reply to this message.  Highlight some code in middle, select BOLD, and see that the bold codes go to end of the text.  Does not take effect on the highlighted sections.

Insert URL tags in middle of text, and see that tags go to end of text.  This seems to happen with all tags.  Same problem in Mozilla.  But MSIE does work properly.  That is why I used to use MSIE, was forced to use it if I wanted to use tags normally.
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No surprise to me re SE/ME.  I think the word has been out for a long time, 98SE is OK, but stay away from ME.  Don't remember the details, but the bottomline was the important message.