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IE Losing Market Share - Posted By Marc (cr0w) on 5th May 10 at 12:52am
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. {Grin}

Here's the article, for those that are interested.

Re: IE Losing Market Share - Posted By webmaren (webmaren) on 5th May 10 at 1:03am
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.

Re: IE Losing Market Share - Posted By Graham (amusedtodeath) on 5th May 10 at 9:57pm
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 {Tongue Out}

Re: IE Losing Market Share - Posted By Ross (admin) on 5th May 10 at 10:16pm
 
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 {Tongue Out}


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? {Shocked}

The sooner the majority of browsers use CSS3 the better {Cool}

Re: IE Losing Market Share - Posted By dog199200 (dog199200) on 5th May 10 at 11:00pm
From what I was reading about IE9, its suppose to support all types of coding {Unsure} but 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?

Re: IE Losing Market Share - Posted By Marc (cr0w) on 6th May 10 at 1:49am
 
 
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 {Tongue Out}


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? {Shocked}

The sooner the majority of browsers use CSS3 the better {Cool}


And support animated PNG's. {Grin} ( http://u.roddyinnovations.com/users/Scorpian8867/waiting_animated.png -- only works in browsers that, you know, don't fail. {Tongue Out} )

@Broken: http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/current-work

Re: IE Losing Market Share - Posted By ashkir (ashkir) on 6th May 10 at 4:00am
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%

Re: IE Losing Market Share - Posted By Michael (wrighty) on 6th May 10 at 4:14am
 
 
 
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 {Tongue Out}


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? {Shocked}

The sooner the majority of browsers use CSS3 the better {Cool}


And support animated PNG's. {Grin} ( http://u.roddyinnovations.com/users/Scorpian8867/waiting_animated.png -- only works in browsers that, you know, don't fail. {Tongue Out} )

@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. {Smile}

Re: IE Losing Market Share - Posted By dog199200 (dog199200) on 6th May 10 at 5:17am
Michael is right. Though a PNG can be animated without being a .apng, I have done it a few times and it works fine.

Re: IE Losing Market Share - Posted By Marc (cr0w) on 6th May 10 at 3:06pm
 
 
 


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? {Shocked}

The sooner the majority of browsers use CSS3 the better {Cool}


And support animated PNG's. {Grin} ( http://u.roddyinnovations.com/users/Scorpian8867/waiting_animated.png -- only works in browsers that, you know, don't fail. {Tongue Out} )

@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. {Smile}


FF3.5+ and Opera 9.5+, I believe. Works perfectly fine for me (FF 3.6) {Smile}

@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. {Wink}