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20% Chrome is surprising. I would've guessed Firefox's share to be much larger.
I'm not sure, but Woobius might be UK-centric, and Google have been heavily pushing Chrome in TV advertising there.
Unfortunately, I have to deal with a much different picture in my case. The web application is often used by either complete computer illiterates or users in large corporate installations (or both). My IE numbers (looking at the three biggest installations): IE percentage: 80, 90, 98 - IE6 percentage: 30, 50, 40 No Chrome. No Safari. Rest is Firefox (2.0, 3.0, 3.5 and 3.6). I weep when I consider the amount of develo…
I nearly fell off my chair when one of our new enterprise customers asked me if we could provide them the app... but with Firefox support because that was all they used. Heaven :)
It broke our hearts, the IT people, and the users. The new system will work on all browsers (except IE6), whenever that will be out.
Does anyone know what the browser market share of HN is?
Browser - hits - percentage
1. Chrome - 805 - 47.92%
2. Firefox - 521 - 31.01%
3. Safari - 270 - 16.07%
4. IE - 45 - 2.68%
5. Opera - 23 - 1.37%
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Also of note, here's the OS breakdown:
1. Windows - 636 - 37.86%
2. Macintosh - 562 - 33.45%
3. Linux - 382 - 22.74%
It's slightly painful, because we've been forcing IE into quirks mode for ages (with a comment before the doctype) so that all IEs behave like IE6, and thus we only had to test one IE.
http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp W3Schools sees IE below 50% since September 2008. However, it's not representative. But as they say on their page: "Anyway, our data [...] clearly shows the long and medium-term trends."
The most objective measure we could get is if someone from Google released their Browser/OS data.
In order to stay modern and write good code with as few hacks as possible, you have to let older browsers go.
The biggest problem with IE6 that I see with my company, is that a lot of corporate clients still have IE6 on their machines because of their lazy IT departments. So they don't care if only 0.0000000000001% of the traffic is from IE6 because it happens to be them.
Yep! Started a new job on Monday with a fresh install of IE 6. I couldn't believe it, I'm now working at one of the companies where ie6 is forced upon all staff, even the web dev team. I complained that the majority of users are using a newer browser, and I was told that IE7 is currently being beta tested. I'm not holding my breath.
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I nearly fell off my chair when one of our new enterprise customers asked me if we could provide them the app... but with Firefox support because that was all they used. Heaven :)
I worked for this large company, who had just bought another smaller company. Wisely, the smaller companies IT department had moved everyone onto Firefox, but since they had to have access to our new system, which was IE, we had to tell them to move back to painsville. It broke our hearts, the IT people, and the users. The new system will work on all browsers (except IE6), whenever that will be out.
However, I'm not certain how easy it is to push a Firefox extension + configuration to a large number of Windows machines.
Safari: 4%
Internet Explorer: 5% (!)
Mozilla-compatible agent: 6%
Chrome: 20%
Firefox: 65%
Woobius traffic specs (quite representative of the enterprise space, so more realistic if you're doing an SaaS that also targets enterprise users/customers), are not too far off, but not 50% yet. IE: 56% Chrome: 20% Firefox: 16% Safari: 5% IE versions are broken up as: IE6: 10% (= 5.6% absolute) IE7: 25% (= 14% absolute) IE8: 65% (= 36% absolute) In other words, dropping IE6 support is not yet plausible. But we've al…
In other words, dropping IE6 support is not yet plausible. Why? 5.6% does really justify the costs of supporting IE6?