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Internet Explorer market share falls again...

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... with Mozilla/Firesomething picking up the percentage points it seems. :D

http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp

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|2004    |IE 6  |IE 5  |IE(5&6)|O 7  |Moz   |NN 3 |NN 4 |NN 7
|August  |70.50%| 7.30%|77.80% |2.20%|14.60%|0.30%|0.30%|1.40%
|July    |71.00%| 7.70%|78.70% |2.30%|13.80%|0.30%|0.30%|1.40%
|June    |72.40%| 8.30%|80.70% |2.30%|11.80%|0.30%|0.30%|1.40%
|May     |72.60%| 9.20%|81.80% |2.20%|11.00%|0.30%|0.30%|1.40%
|April   |72.40%|10.10%|82.50% |2.10%|10.30%|0.30%|0.30%|1.40%
|March   |72.10%|10.70%|82.80% |2.10%| 9.60%|0.40%|0.40%|1.40%
|February|71.50%|11.50%|83.00% |2.20%| 9.00%|0.40%|0.40%|1.50%
|January |71.30%|12.80%|84.10% |2.10%| 8.20%|0.40%|0.50%|1.50%
Looks like at this rate, IE may well not have the largest market share this time next year... :D
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That is looking very impressive indeed.
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Great to hear. My main problem with IE is it lack of standards with W3C. So hopefully this trend will continue and I can make my website better and better ;)
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mwdmeyer wrote: Great to hear. My main problem with IE is it lack of standards with W3C. So hopefully this trend will continue and I can make my website better and better ;)


Start using web standard features now, so when visitors use your site in a browser whos core isn't over 6 years old get additional features.

Such things may include CSS2 (fixed positioning, generated content, :hover/:active/:focus/:visited on any element, etc) or CSS3 (CSS3 selectors, opacity... supported since Mozilla1.7+, border images, etc). ;)
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It is interesting that Mozilla was able to about double its market share each year (at least on the w3schools site, which admittedly is more tech centered).
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dhn wrote: It is interesting that Mozilla was able to about double its market share each year (at least on the w3schools site, which admittedly is more tech centered).


It started picking up above the 4% doldrums sometime about middle of 2003... which interesting was when Firesomething (as Firebird 0.6) was released... :D
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Interestingly, those stats actually have IE with a higher market share total than the ones I collect (admittedly with a much smaller sample size of 10000 ish)
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I love opera but downloaded firefox yesterday i have to say that firefox is really really fast :)
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IE==Teh best. Everything else==Suck. Thats what I have to say ;)
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woodley wrote: IE==Teh best. Everything else==Suck. Thats what I have to say ;)

And thank you for your constructive ciriticism and contribution to this topic.
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dhn wrote:
woodley wrote:IE==Teh best. Everything else==Suck. Thats what I have to say ;)

And thank you for your constructive ciriticism and contribution to this topic.


It is called a joke. As for my true opinion, I happen to not care either way as long as I'm not using AOL.
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SHS` wrote: Start using web standard features now, so when visitors use your site in a browser whos core isn't over 6 years old get additional features.

Such things may include CSS2 (fixed positioning, generated content, :hover/:active/:focus/:visited on any element, etc) or CSS3 (CSS3 selectors, opacity... supported since Mozilla1.7+, border images, etc). ;)


There is also the `friendly reminder` option...
Place this in your HTML file:

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<!--[if IE]>
 <p id="ieLink">
  <a href="/ie.html">
   <span class="hyperLink">For users of Internet Explorer</span></a>
<![endif]-->
Then make it link to a page telling them how old IE is, how bad it is at rendering simple CSS elements, and solutions to their problem (such as links to FireFox, Mozilla, etc...)

Or, do it in one large go:

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		<!--[if IE]>
<div class="ff">

<div class="image"><a href="http://getfirefox.com/" title="Get Firefox - The Browser, Reloaded"><img src="/images/getfirefox_large.png" width="178" height="60" alt="Get Firefox"></a></div>

<p>You are seeing this message becuase you appear to be using Internet Explorer. 
Internet Explorer is so broken that the author of this site has been forced to send simpler (and not as nice) layout information to it. 
Please consider upgrading to a better browser such as <a href="http://getfirefox.com/">Firefox</a>, <a href="http://www.opera.com/">Opera</a>, <a href="http://www.apple.com/safari/">Safari</a>, or <a href="http://konqueror.org/">Konqueror</a>.</p> 

</div>
<![endif]-->

Both are very good examples of how to do it un-obtrusivly, and make people consider the alternitaves.

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NeoThermic wrote:

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		<!--[if IE]>
<div class="ff">

<div class="image"><a href="http://getfirefox.com/" title="Get Firefox - The Browser, Reloaded"><img src="/images/getfirefox_large.png" width="178" height="60" alt="Get Firefox"></a></div>

<p>You are seeing this message becuase you appear to be using Internet Explorer. 
Internet Explorer is so broken that the author of this site has been forced to send simpler (and not as nice) layout information to it. 
Please consider upgrading to a better browser such as <a href="http://getfirefox.com/">Firefox</a>, <a href="http://www.opera.com/">Opera</a>, <a href="http://www.apple.com/safari/">Safari</a>, or <a href="http://konqueror.org/">Konqueror</a>.</p> 

</div>
<![endif]-->



I know about conditional comments, used them a number of times... why didn't I think of that instead of using the ">" CSS selector, which also means some non-IE UAs also see said information...? ^_^;;
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Serve a page like to me and you'll never see me at your site again :) I wouldn't recommend that approach at all.
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psoTFX wrote: Serve a page like to me and you'll never see me at your site again :) I wouldn't recommend that approach at all.

allmusic.com did that to me for using Firefox, I wasn't strong enough to stay away from it though, their content is just too good and unique. :(
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