Firefox Passes IE6 In Market Share

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Post by nategraves » Thu, Mar 05, 2009, 6:59 PM UTC

Firefox Passes IE6 In Market Share
electronista.com

Re: Firefox Passes IE6 In Market Share

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Post by ctingom » Thu, Mar 05, 2009, 7:02 PM UTC

It's about time!

Re: Firefox Passes IE6 In Market Share

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Post by alecst » Thu, Mar 05, 2009, 7:38 PM UTC

Forgive me for being that guy, but:

> Please don't do things to make titles stand out, like using uppercase or exclamation points, or adding a parenthetical remark saying how great an article is. It's implicit in submitting something that you think it's important.

From: http://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Re: Firefox Passes IE6 In Market Share

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Post by JoelSutherland » Thu, Mar 05, 2009, 7:41 PM UTC

According to StatCounter. It's numbers are much different from the other big players (Net Applications, Alexa etc.):

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/statcounter_launches_gl...

Re: Firefox Passes IE6 In Market Share

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Post by nategraves » Thu, Mar 05, 2009, 7:53 PM UTC

alecst wrote: post #3

Forgive me for being that guy , but: > Please don't do things to make titles stand out, like using uppercase or exclamation points, or adding a parenthetical remark saying how great an article is. It's implicit in submitting something that you think it's important. From: http://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Dont' worry about being that guy. You were very much in the right.

Re: Firefox Passes IE6 In Market Share

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Post by michaelk » Thu, Mar 05, 2009, 7:59 PM UTC

It's sort of sad how technologically uninformed most people are, considering how important this stuff has become.

Re: Firefox Passes IE6 In Market Share

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Post by jwilliams » Thu, Mar 05, 2009, 8:33 PM UTC

michaelk wrote: post #6

It's sort of sad how technologically uninformed most people are, considering how important this stuff has become.

I don't see it as the fault of individuals, more the fault of the industry.

Re: Firefox Passes IE6 In Market Share

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Post by RossM » Thu, Mar 05, 2009, 8:42 PM UTC

michaelk wrote: post #6

It's sort of sad how technologically uninformed most people are, considering how important this stuff has become.

The thing is, it's not important for the users. I still have to use IE6 occasionally while at college (although this is only the case on the ThinClients, everything else is on IE7) but apart from lacking tabs there's not a lot (on the face of it) from IE7.

Important for web developers and those that use the internet frequently but not for those that only use the net occasionally.

Re: Firefox Passes IE6 In Market Share

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Post by nategraves » Thu, Mar 05, 2009, 8:54 PM UTC

jwilliams wrote: post #7

michaelk wrote: post #6

It's sort of sad how technologically uninformed most people are, considering how important this stuff has become.

I don't see it as the fault of individuals, more the fault of the industry.

I do agree that the industry plays a large part in the continuation of bad practices. I'm always amazed at how apathetic some browser developers have been in responding to developer requests. It seems that, ultimately, the browser developers would benefit from more websites working on their product.

At the same time I'm optimistic that as users become aware of some of the great plug-ins that are available for Firefox and the great speed and usability of Safari and Chrome, they'll be more inclined to finally make the switch.

Re: Firefox Passes IE6 In Market Share

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Post by chairface » Thu, Mar 05, 2009, 9:12 PM UTC

alecst wrote: post #3

Forgive me for being that guy , but: > Please don't do things to make titles stand out, like using uppercase or exclamation points, or adding a parenthetical remark saying how great an article is. It's implicit in submitting something that you think it's important. From: http://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Was the title edited? I don't see any of those things.