However, you may find it informative to take a look at the market leading online classified site http://www.finn.no and their monthly web browser statistics. They publish som super interesting statistics on web browsers amongst their users. FINN.no is equivalent to ebay in the Norwegian market. Close to everyone passing time online has visited the site, so it provides valuable insight into what kind of browsers ‘the people’ is using.

Findings: Internet Explorer (versions 6, 7 or still dominate with roughly 60 percent of visitors’ web browsers. Firefox is on a steady rise and has reached 17,5 percent, while the rest is Safari and others.

Marcus Wendt
Composite

We supported Firefox and IE from the start and have also introduced support for Safari and Opera. Now that we introducing a lot more AJAX in the front end we can really see the amount of work required to implement and test our system in all the browsers. That said we believe that it’s worth it, especially the increasing number of Apple and Firefox users out there.

Cheers,

As I said a few weeks ago, your customers are telling me otherwise. They may be on older versions or they may simply be wrong. I would be happy to delete you from the list, if you could provide me with some references that I can talk to that actually uses C1 on Firefox

NB: A part of being vendor neutral is that I listen to both customers and vendors. When there are conflicting claims, which often happen, I do a fact-check, but lean towards trusting the customer statements. Making unfounded claims, or accusing others of doing so, makes little sense for everybody involved.

It’s like the list you have assembled above – you have added systems which you feel are relevant to your audience, not every CMS you have ever heard about. You have done this because you know that being exhaustive is not necessarily helping the reader.

Anyway – as stated a few times by now – Composite C1 enjoys complete Firefox support, yet you claim that we don’t. I’m still waiting for your actual response – that we are either removed from this list or that you describe a single user action which a Firefox user is barred from executing in Composite C1. You simply can not call your self a vender neutral CMS expert and then make unfounded claims like this.

Best regards

Marcus Wendt
Composite

According to the C1 system requirements document up on your own site (http://compositecorp.c1live01.composite.net/Renderers/ShowMedia.ashx?i=MediaArchive:/Downloads/Composite_C1_System_requirements.pdf) the Composite C1 client runs on Windows XP or Apples OS X. It says nothing about Linux.

Let me know

articles like http://www.microsoft.com/danmark/referencer/compositeUK.mspx might give you the impression that we would favor IE and have Firefox as a step child, but if you were to investigate this a little bit beyond hearsay I think you would find that we are not only at 100% Firefox support – we actually encourage people to use Firefox for editing via Composite C1.

If you are not going to remove us from your list, at least have the courtesy of informing us where we are lacking Firefox support, either by contacting us directly or posting it on this blog.

Best regards

Marcus Wendt

Hopefully some of this will be improved in the upcoming 2010 version (which at least on the serverside will only run on 64 bit Windows).