I kind of like the hammer theory … 🙂

I guess it’s quite possible that a few emails generated by this post added to ones sent by people like yourself earlier, highlighted the fact that people are actually using these other browsers – and for everyone that complained there are likely to be far more who just went away.

If the designers had said that it wasn’t worth supporting these browsers because no-one uses them, then a reasonable number of complaints from users of the browsers is going to disprove that! I do think it is worth emailing companies and letting them know, just for this reason.