[Rubber Duck]

Originally Posted by dabsi

I'm really desapointed about all the statements there.


- Based on our french portfolio (very diversified, only generic names) traffic was high before IE7 and Vista and is still at same level !

-Wannadoo/Orange are access provider and not browser provider, don't mix french telecoms and browsers

Please stop giving the illusion that IDN are flying now as it is not the case yet.

I by myself had a lot of hopes on IE7 but noted that IDNs are a much more complicated matter as to register a country name in swahili and wait for the cash.


DABSI

The reality is that Latin IDN which are by no means essential especially in languages like French where all accents are dropped in the Capitalised Form was always going to be a much harder sell than in Languages such as Chinese and Russian where a completely different script was evident. As in many cases Firefox already had about a third of the browser market, the upside of an IE7 launch was going to be limited. OK, Korea is beset with problems related to ActiveX, but when a country goes from 99.9% IE6 penetration to near zero in a short period of time the impact is likely to be much more deeply felt.

The ISP argument is a valid one. I don't know about Wannadoo, but some providers notably AOL have always had their own browser tool. Some ISPs will have browser tools that are adaptations of IE6. When these upgrade to later variants then you might expect a huge increase in IDN support. It is pretty certain that those already on Firefox don't use such tools, but that have been logged as IE6 may well do so.