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Re: Firefox Passes IE6 In Market Share

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Post by chairface » Thu, Mar 05, 2009, 9:14 PM UTC

The title seems a little triumphant for my tastes - wouldn't it arguably be more accurate as "IE6 dips below Firefox in market share"?

Re: Firefox Passes IE6 In Market Share

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Post by axod » Thu, Mar 05, 2009, 9:17 PM UTC

chairface wrote: post #11

The title seems a little triumphant for my tastes - wouldn't it arguably be more accurate as "IE6 dips below Firefox in market share"?

"dip" implies it may recover. I'm pretty skeptical that we'll see a resurgence of IE6 usage.

Re: Firefox Passes IE6 In Market Share

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Post by nategraves » Thu, Mar 05, 2009, 10:00 PM UTC

chairface wrote: post #10

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.

I believe it was.

Re: Firefox Passes IE6 In Market Share

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Post by josefresco » Thu, Mar 05, 2009, 10:15 PM UTC

*Results may vary.

Here's a hint: Look at YOUR traffic and determine what browsers to support.

Re: Firefox Passes IE6 In Market Share

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Post by nategraves » Thu, Mar 05, 2009, 10:42 PM UTC

josefresco wrote: post #14

*Results may vary. Here's a hint: Look at YOUR traffic and determine what browsers to support.

Well spoken. It's interesting to see how different browser usage and resolution settings can be from one market segment to another.

Re: Firefox Passes IE6 In Market Share

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Post by misterbwong » Thu, Mar 05, 2009, 11:44 PM UTC

chairface wrote: post #10

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.

I believe the original title was: Firefox Passes IE6 In Market Share (FINALLY)

Re: Firefox Passes IE6 In Market Share

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Post by aasarava » Thu, Mar 05, 2009, 11:52 PM UTC

Does anyone know where to get current stats on IE5.0 and IE5.5 use? I'm guessing it's below 1% if you look at a wide variety of "general use" sites, like portals and news, but it'd be great to have some solid data on that -- especially to show to clients who request that their sites support it.

Re: Firefox Passes IE6 In Market Share

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Post by dcurtis » Fri, Mar 06, 2009, 12:03 AM UTC

JoelSutherland wrote: post #4

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...

Their numbers for Safari are hilariously wrong; they suggest Opera has a bigger share (at 1.9%). Considering all other metrics seem to indicate Safari has a 3-6% share now, this leads me to question all of their other numbers.

Re: Firefox Passes IE6 In Market Share

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Post by kolya3 » Fri, Mar 06, 2009, 1:02 AM UTC

michaelk wrote: post #6

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

I'm sure mechanics feel the same way about the rest of us when we bring our car into the shop. Browsers are important to us but they'll never be important to "most people".

Re: Firefox Passes IE6 In Market Share

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Post by rokhayakebe » Fri, Mar 06, 2009, 1:35 AM UTC

Microsoft still owns about 20% of Firefox I think.