IE has 1% of market share ... on HN: "Show HN" aftermath • Hacker News Board

Re: IE has 1% of market share ... on HN: "Show HN" aftermath

#11

Post by ghc » Tue, Nov 22, 2011, 4:50 PM UTC

Interesting to note that normalized for population, New York seriously lags behind CA and MA.

Re: IE has 1% of market share ... on HN: "Show HN" aftermath

#12

Post by sciurus » Tue, Nov 22, 2011, 4:53 PM UTC

1440x900 resolution is used on desktop monitors, too.

Re: IE has 1% of market share ... on HN: "Show HN" aftermath

#13

Post by sciurus » Tue, Nov 22, 2011, 4:53 PM UTC

1440x900 resolution is used on desktop monitors, too.

Re: IE has 1% of market share ... on HN: "Show HN" aftermath

#14

Post by wavephorm » Tue, Nov 22, 2011, 4:53 PM UTC

anujkk wrote: post #9

So, 41.76% users used Mac but only 14.84% used safari. 29.94% were on windows but only 1.18% used IE. Interesting.

I imagine many HN visitors develop websites. Developing a website using IE or Safari would be a miserable experience.

Re: IE has 1% of market share ... on HN: "Show HN" aftermath

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Post by fauldsh » Tue, Nov 22, 2011, 4:58 PM UTC

rokhayakebe wrote: post #10

I would like to know who those 100 users are.

WP7 is a fair reason in my biased opinion

Re: IE has 1% of market share ... on HN: "Show HN" aftermath

#16

Post by ma2rten » Tue, Nov 22, 2011, 4:58 PM UTC

"For me the biggest cost was getting time series data out of the DB"

Is there some reason you can not use memcache or even instance memory for the most part ?

Re: IE has 1% of market share ... on HN: "Show HN" aftermath

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Post by Groxx » Tue, Nov 22, 2011, 5:02 PM UTC

sciurus wrote: post #12

1440x900 resolution is used on desktop monitors, too.

Was just about to echo this. The last two monitors I've bought had this as the native resolution. (yeah, it's been a while)

Re: IE has 1% of market share ... on HN: "Show HN" aftermath

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Post by eddieplan9 » Tue, Nov 22, 2011, 5:22 PM UTC

wavephorm wrote: post #14

anujkk wrote: post #9

So, 41.76% users used Mac but only 14.84% used safari. 29.94% were on windows but only 1.18% used IE. Interesting.

I imagine many HN visitors develop websites. Developing a website using IE or Safari would be a miserable experience.

I don't understand the Safari bit. I develop webapps, and I use Safari. The developer tool is top-notch. I don't see where the "miserable" bit comes from.

Re: IE has 1% of market share ... on HN: "Show HN" aftermath

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Post by kristofferR » Tue, Nov 22, 2011, 5:26 PM UTC

wavephorm wrote: post #14

anujkk wrote: post #9

So, 41.76% users used Mac but only 14.84% used safari. 29.94% were on windows but only 1.18% used IE. Interesting.

I imagine many HN visitors develop websites. Developing a website using IE or Safari would be a miserable experience.

Why would it be a bad experience to develop on Safari? It has extension support, a debug menu (which lets you change user agent) and the same web inspector as Chrome.

Re: IE has 1% of market share ... on HN: "Show HN" aftermath

#20

Post by jcr » Tue, Nov 22, 2011, 5:38 PM UTC

Your calculation of claimed percentage of robots is deeply flawed. Not only do web browsers aggressively cache CSS files, but internet service providers also aggressively cache them.

Though I'm a rare exception, my web browser is configured to ignore CSS completely, including both in-page styles and all additional loadable files. A configuration like this is very rare because it's difficult to do and the result often breaks sites. The only place where it is common is for people with visual impairments.

A well behaved bot will (typically) announce itself by its User-Agent string. A securely configured browser (IMO) will never send a User-Agent string or Referrer, and will reject cookies as well as ignore javascript --Needless to say, this breaks a whole lot of sites, but suffice to say, HN does have a higher percentage of people wearing tin-foil hats than the regular populace.