98% isn't much

Reminds me of the Meat Loaf song “Two Out of Three Ain’t Bad” which was released in Japan as 66%の誘惑 “66% is Good Enough” etc https://www.discogs.com/release/8303076

Re: 98% isn't much

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Post by kardianos » Tue, Jul 07, 2026, 1:00 PM UTC

panny wrote: post #2

I couldn't agree more. BTW, 98% of US users have JavaScript enabled in 2025. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/No-JavaScript_notes

100% of this will be self-inflicted no javascript and 0% of the people who I am targeting.

The Galaxy Brain isn't global usage, it is overlapping populations. Will any percentage of them care about any percentage of me?

Put another way, many people decided to effectively drop support for IE11. When my client has even a single client who still uses IE11, we don't drop support even when it is "bad to support it". But when that drops to zero, regardless of what anyone else is doing, then we can drop support for IE11.

Re: 98% isn't much

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Post by arealaccount » Tue, Jul 07, 2026, 1:01 PM UTC

I wonder how much traffic from bots is skewing OPs nested CSS calculations

Re: 98% isn't much

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Post by atan2 » Tue, Jul 07, 2026, 1:01 PM UTC

That reminds me of an old comic where a guy picks a milk carton from the grocery store shelf and reads in the box: "Now with 0.01% less semen." and he does not know if he's happy or sad about it.

Re: 98% isn't much

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Post by eknkc » Tue, Jul 07, 2026, 1:01 PM UTC

I agree the general premise but do not agree when it comes to browser support.

I feel like we should be building for the 98% or even 95% and force the remaining to upgrade their browsers. I've built for the IE6 - IE11 era for a painful and long time. I do not give a shit if you want to use a 3 year old browser at this point. Go look at a blank screen.

Re: 98% isn't much

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Post by high_na_euv » Tue, Jul 07, 2026, 1:01 PM UTC

Depends on the context

Re: 98% isn't much

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Post by theragra » Tue, Jul 07, 2026, 1:01 PM UTC

Pragmatically, often users without new browsers and OSses are not the best clients. In ideal world, sure, I want to support everyone. In a world with limited resources, I would better spend my time elsewhere.