Trend implies Chrome to overtake IE in browser share in one year.
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Trend implies Chrome to overtake IE in browser share in one year.
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Re: Trend implies Chrome to overtake IE in browser share in one year.
#2Obligatory XKCD: http://xkcd.com/605/
"As you can see, by late next month you'll have over four dozen husbands. Better get bulk rate on that wedding cake."
IMNSHO, the adoption of IE9 (on new computers with Win7 preinstalled, perhaps?) might make a significant dent in that projection. I've seen a very similar graph (starring Firefox) a few years back; and then IE came back from the dead with version 8.
Re: Trend implies Chrome to overtake IE in browser share in one year.
#3Obligatory XKCD: http://xkcd.com/605/ "As you can see, by late next month you'll have over four dozen husbands. Better get bulk rate on that wedding cake." IMNSHO, the adoption of IE9 (on new computers with Win7 preinstalled, perhaps?) might make a significant dent in that projection. I've seen a very similar graph (starring Firefox) a few years back; and then IE came back from the dead with version 8.
Yeah, and there's always someone in April who's on pace to hit 80 home runs for the season. That said, I think the trend toward Chrome, and webkit browsers in general, is undeniable.
Re: Trend implies Chrome to overtake IE in browser share in one year.
#4Obligatory XKCD: http://xkcd.com/605/ "As you can see, by late next month you'll have over four dozen husbands. Better get bulk rate on that wedding cake." IMNSHO, the adoption of IE9 (on new computers with Win7 preinstalled, perhaps?) might make a significant dent in that projection. I've seen a very similar graph (starring Firefox) a few years back; and then IE came back from the dead with version 8.
Yeah, and there's always someone in April who's on pace to hit 80 home runs for the season. That said, I think the trend toward Chrome, and webkit browsers in general, is undeniable.
Linear extrapolation in general is unwise, but with market share it is particularly foolish. I'd bet the opposite, that the gap between the two browsers takes longer than a year to vanish.
Re: Trend implies Chrome to overtake IE in browser share in one year.
#5Chrome 15 is right now in the process of claiming the most used version from IE 8.
But like the combined version share, what you can use is often more about the people holding you back on IE 6,7,8 than the ones pushing you forward.
Re: Trend implies Chrome to overtake IE in browser share in one year.
#6Who cares? Whatever browser is the market leader doesn't matter because you will still need to support IE, Chrome, Firefox and Safari for the foreseeable future. Nobody has ever made a (significant) profit from a browser. In fact, Microsoft lost billions for their efforts (see U.S. vs. MSFT).
Can someone please explain to me why this matters?
Re: Trend implies Chrome to overtake IE in browser share in one year.
#7The graph the title links to is a little dated, it only cites stats up to July 2011. Here's a more up to date graph citing stats up to October 2011:
http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser-ww-monthly-200809-201110
The curves are even more revealing.
Re: Trend implies Chrome to overtake IE in browser share in one year.
#8Who cares? Whatever browser is the market leader doesn't matter because you will still need to support IE, Chrome, Firefox and Safari for the foreseeable future. Nobody has ever made a (significant) profit from a browser. In fact, Microsoft lost billions for their efforts (see U.S. vs. MSFT). Can someone please explain to me why this matters?
If Chrome is the market leader, you have a viable argument for not supporting IE at all. Or at least making it a low priority.
Re: Trend implies Chrome to overtake IE in browser share in one year.
#9Who cares? Whatever browser is the market leader doesn't matter because you will still need to support IE, Chrome, Firefox and Safari for the foreseeable future. Nobody has ever made a (significant) profit from a browser. In fact, Microsoft lost billions for their efforts (see U.S. vs. MSFT). Can someone please explain to me why this matters?
In terms of affecting what devs need to do, it doesn't matter. However, if it happens (and it's a big if), it would certainly be noteworthy, because it will cement html standards-compliance.
As you say, you need to support IE, Chrome, FF and Safari - but (at least for IE If you don't see this as a significant thing, then I'm guessing you're too young to have been coding web pages when IE had a 90%+ market share. You kids have it easy. :-)
Re: Trend implies Chrome to overtake IE in browser share in one year.
#10And within 2 years it will be used by more than 100% of people worldwide!
As my maths teacher used to say, "even in the privacy of your own home, you should not extrapolate."