Comments on: The state of IE browser share today

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網站製作學習誌 » [Web] 連結分享 — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 02:43:14 +0000

[...] The state of IE browser share today [...]

By: bobby

bobby — Sun, 17 May 2009 19:25:11 +0000

ie8.. more horrors. now i have to put put in conditional code to test for EACH version of IE … if lt IE7 and if LT ie8 blocks… MS single handedly doubles the cost of web development. three IE browsers and no compatibllity between any of them! MS – you make my life miserable. why is it that all other browser support one version of code. what gives.

By: hans

hans — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 08:49:39 +0000

Browser Marketshare is just an excuse to continue bad and lazy coding. The ridiculous extra button in IE8 is so MS: ‘we are unable to make a decent browser, but we will never admit it”. When you push the button, IE8 acts as a IE7. So all the lazy developers and designers are saved: their crappy sites are shown as if IE8 was a IE7. MS has also integrated a default list of sites that will automatically be rendered in IE7 mode. And then the magic button is not visible! Do the test with IE8 with microsoft.com and for instance apple.com. Microsoft.com is on the list because they know that their site is not well written. But we cannot test their site in IE8 because they are themselves on the list and the magic button is not visible. Cowards.
Anyway, the fastest way to kill the whole silly family of IE bastards is to stop coding for them. Then also ordinary people will finally see that IE is just a low quality product to avoid.

By: Mauro

Mauro — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 06:46:08 +0000

IE8 has been released and it looks like it has CSS3 features!

By: Brad

Brad — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 15:31:16 +0000

The company I work for (about 200 people) has Windows Update downloading updates automatically on each computer It does not automatically update everyone to IE7. Wether this happens because MS is not pushing it, or because the company I work for is rejecting the update with WSUS, the end result is the same. The company would not want the browser-based apps in use by 99% of its employees to break.

By: Liam McDermott

Liam McDermott — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 00:31:22 +0000

The reason MS doesn’t make it automatic, is that it would break so many of the corporate Web apps for companies that typically do automatically download patches.

Big corporations use WSUS, so this excuse is not viable.

By: Brad

Brad — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 04:47:58 +0000

The reason IE6 is still holding on so tenaciously, is that Microsoft is not making it an automatic update in their Software Update utility. So people don’t automatically download it the way they do with other patches. The reason MS doesn’t make it automatic, is that it would break so many of the corporate Web apps for companies that typically do automatically download patches.

Once IE8 is released with backwards compatible support for IE6 and IE7, then a lot more people will upgrade, knowing that it won’t break their sites and applications. Once that happens, we’ll be able to stop coding for older versions.

By: Kelson

Kelson — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 18:15:40 +0000

I also recently saw IE usage on my site tip over to the point that IE7 hits now outnumber IE6. My guess is that a lot of people got new computers for Christmas, or had tech-savvy relatives visiting who helped clean/fix/upgrade their computers.

Current stats for January:
62.6% total IE
33.8% IE7
28.3% IE6
27.3% Firefox (just one percentage point behind IE6!)

Interestingly enough, I also saw one visit from IE8 last week. One page with associated scripts, styles and images, and it came from a Microsoft IP address, so I think it’s the real thing.

By: Peter Gasston

Peter Gasston — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 15:31:44 +0000

According to my own stats – which again, are not necessarily indicative – IE6 had a market share of approx. 74% when IE7 was launched back in October 2006, and now has a share of 33.5%; that’s a drop of more than half 15 months, which is quite substantial when we’re talking about a user base of millions.

Microsoft are currently doing a big push to get users upgraded – the prompt page mentioned above, and the roll-out as a high priority automatic update – which will hopefully pay dividends in reducing IE6 share further still.

By: Megan

Megan — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 15:19:10 +0000

I think that IE 6 is set to become Netscape 4 all over again. Remember how long it took for NS 4 to get to a low enough market share that you could finally stop coding for it? I think there may be a time next year when we’re having to support 3 versions of Internet Explorer.

The usage on the sites I manage is continuing to slowly decline but I think it’s starting to reach a plateau. It would be interesting to chart the IE 6 usage over time to see the patterns. On one of the sites I run we’ve had a fairly successful IE upgrade campaign, at least as measured by clickthroughs to Opera & Firefox.

The last time I launched IE 6 for testing (via IEs 4 Linux) I was greeted with this page, which sort implies that I should upgrade but doesn’t really say so outright. Bad marketing.