So, I was reading an article on BBC earlier, and it gave these figures for current browser usage:
# Internet Explorer - 59.9%
# Firefox - 24.5%
# Chrome - 6.7%
# Safari - 4.7%
# Opera - 2.3%
# Opera Mini - 0.7%
# Netscape - 0.46%
# Mozilla - 0.16%
# Flock - 0.06%
# Lunascape - 0.04%
Personally, I think it's about time people started to realize how bad IE really is. Who knows, if this trend keeps up, maybe Microsoft will get with the program and start accepting web standards...not to mention handling code correctly. Or maybe their market share for browsers will just become so low that coders will no longer need to bother with making things IE-compatible.![]()
Here's the article, for those that are interested.
Saw the same stats on Ars Technica. The unfortunate reality is that corporate intranets have web applications that were custom-coded to work only in IE6, and that means that those machines will take forever to move into the modern era.
But there really is no excuse for home users to still be running IE6. None at all.
The only problem will be getting people out of their comfort zone - we still have clients asking for their site to be compatible in IE6, yet we stopped catering for that a while ago.
The times, they are changing...but just not as fast as we would all like![]()
The only problem will be getting people out of their comfort zone - we still have clients asking for their site to be compatible in IE6, yet we stopped catering for that a while ago.
The times, they are changing...but just not as fast as we would all like![]()
We still have some people asking for their site to work in IE6. Our line to them is that we can make sure it is "usable" in IE6. That means it won't necessarily look the same as the intended design or ever look particularly nice, but the end user will be able to use all of the core, essential, functionality.
We don't have to make sites IE8 compatible either, we just force turn on the IE8 compatibility mode (as we do on vForums). I would have thought the fact Microsoft had to include such a feature should have screamed out at them that they were doing something wrong. I can't wait to see what they come up with for IE9 - a way to choose between IE9, IE8 & IE7 rendering modes?![]()
The sooner the majority of browsers use CSS3 the better![]()
From what I was reading about IE9, its suppose to support all types of codingbut that is one of those things where i'll believe it when i see it. Also what exactly is CSS3, i mean whats the difference?
The only problem will be getting people out of their comfort zone - we still have clients asking for their site to be compatible in IE6, yet we stopped catering for that a while ago.
The times, they are changing...but just not as fast as we would all like![]()
We still have some people asking for their site to work in IE6. Our line to them is that we can make sure it is "usable" in IE6. That means it won't necessarily look the same as the intended design or ever look particularly nice, but the end user will be able to use all of the core, essential, functionality.
We don't have to make sites IE8 compatible either, we just force turn on the IE8 compatibility mode (as we do on vForums). I would have thought the fact Microsoft had to include such a feature should have screamed out at them that they were doing something wrong. I can't wait to see what they come up with for IE9 - a way to choose between IE9, IE8 & IE7 rendering modes?![]()
The sooner the majority of browsers use CSS3 the better![]()
And support animated PNG's.( http://u.roddyinnovations.com/
users/Scorpian8867/waiting_ani mated.png -- only works in browsers that, you know, don't fail. )
@Broken: http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/current-work
w3 reports Chrome is over 10% now.
W3 reports:
IE only controls 33.4%
Firefox is at 46.4%
Google Chrome is at 13.6%
The only problem will be getting people out of their comfort zone - we still have clients asking for their site to be compatible in IE6, yet we stopped catering for that a while ago.
The times, they are changing...but just not as fast as we would all like![]()
We still have some people asking for their site to work in IE6. Our line to them is that we can make sure it is "usable" in IE6. That means it won't necessarily look the same as the intended design or ever look particularly nice, but the end user will be able to use all of the core, essential, functionality.
We don't have to make sites IE8 compatible either, we just force turn on the IE8 compatibility mode (as we do on vForums). I would have thought the fact Microsoft had to include such a feature should have screamed out at them that they were doing something wrong. I can't wait to see what they come up with for IE9 - a way to choose between IE9, IE8 & IE7 rendering modes?![]()
The sooner the majority of browsers use CSS3 the better![]()
And support animated PNG's.( http://u.roddyinnovations.com/
users/Scorpian8867/waiting_ani mated.png -- only works in browsers that, you know, don't fail. )
@Broken: http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/current-work
As far as I know, Animated PNGs require the .apng ending... That isn't an animated image, if it is meant to be, tell me in which browser to view it.![]()
Michael is right. Though a PNG can be animated without being a .apng, I have done it a few times and it works fine.
We still have some people asking for their site to work in IE6. Our line to them is that we can make sure it is "usable" in IE6. That means it won't necessarily look the same as the intended design or ever look particularly nice, but the end user will be able to use all of the core, essential, functionality.
We don't have to make sites IE8 compatible either, we just force turn on the IE8 compatibility mode (as we do on vForums). I would have thought the fact Microsoft had to include such a feature should have screamed out at them that they were doing something wrong. I can't wait to see what they come up with for IE9 - a way to choose between IE9, IE8 & IE7 rendering modes?![]()
The sooner the majority of browsers use CSS3 the better![]()
And support animated PNG's.( http://u.roddyinnovations.com/
users/Scorpian8867/waiting_ani mated.png -- only works in browsers that, you know, don't fail. )
@Broken: http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/current-work
As far as I know, Animated PNGs require the .apng ending... That isn't an animated image, if it is meant to be, tell me in which browser to view it.![]()
FF3.5+ and Opera 9.5+, I believe. Works perfectly fine for me (FF 3.6)![]()
@ashkir: The only people who really use w3 are those who are interested in coding and standards and such; most of whom don't use IE. For that reason, w3's results will likely be quite skewed compared to the rest of the internet.![]()