" This is NetWeb suicide! According to the most current Stats Firefox user-agents now accounts for 47% of most website traffic and in the IE camp something like 60%"
Just a quick little comment about this post... I am not sure where you are getting your numbers from, but being a web developer and actively managing several hundren websites, Firefox can't even smell 47%. Sorry to say that all you IE bashers. Don't get me wrong, I have no love for IE, I just want to point out that your numbers are significantly wrong, let alone your math seems a bit off too...
I do think it is a good policy to design your websites to be cross browser compatible. Indeed. Though not quite "Suicide" if you don't. It really comes down to Money. If the client wants to spend the extra dough, we do it, if not, we don't. And to tell the truth, if anyone is commiting suicide, it is the Firefox developers. I think it is their responsibility to make their browser 100% compatible with the norm. I guarantee they would get a bigger market share if they did.
So now, If you want to know the truth about %, do your own poll. Check the stats of multiple high traffic site. PR1 and 2 sites as well as sites up to PR5 and 6. Here is what I have found:
MS Internet Explorer 92.3 %
Firefox 3.9 %
Opera 1.3 %
Safari 1.3 %
Unknown 1.0 %
Mozilla 0.2 %
Actual stats.
True.