Web Standards, Accessibility & More

I thought it would be interesting to post some statistical information from Feedburner on my podcast and blog about web accessibility, Web Axe. It had been several weeks since I last checked the stats, and it was a pleasant surprise to see some growth.

The stats are for Thursday, July 10, 2008 and shows one of Web Axe’s highest subscriber rates of 746 (an approximation of how many times your feed has been requested in a 24-hour period). What I find most interesting is the different types of feed readers being used and how popular they are.  Google and iTunes top the list. Google feed readers (Google Reader or iGoogle) count for 32%, and iTunes for 30% (17% Mac and 13% Windows). Netvibes, my favorite RSS reader, was next at 10%.

With so many developers using Firebug add-on with the Firefox web browser, I was really surprised that it didn’t work when I upgraded to Firefox 3. Firefox 3 was June 17, 2008, and you’ll notice that the  Firebug update wasn’t until June 28. That means that for eleven days, we web developers were left bewildered, without the now essential web developing tool. Of course, I’m guessing most of us had another computer with Firefox 2 and Firebug still running as I did.

So now, if you’re still wondering, you can get Firebug 1.2 that works beautifully with Firefox 3.

Firefox 2 users should install the older 1.05 version of Firebug. You can get the previous Firebug versions here.