The users could easily be a-typical for all i know. In my case, the sample is fairly small, and I never suggested it was representative of the internet as a whole. The bigger of the two sites I've used is a radio station. It has 54,000 user sessions in that set of stats.
All I was saying is it's the first time I've seen IE as not the top browser. (one swallow does not a summer make!) There are people at the radio station who try to tell me that the world is going mac and we ought to be replacing our network to macs. I say these stats dont support that, at least in our case, and whether or not we should replace our network to macs needs to be for a reason other than 'thats what everyone else is using'! (which was never a good reason in the first place!) There were those who were saying not all that long ago that IE was a gonner, and we'd all best pay attention to Opera. Then along came Firefox, now I'd suggest it's anyone's race and the main contenders are IE, Firefox, Chrome and all the others together add up to a long way behind. The significance for us as web developers is that all this competition is tending towards standardisation. If things had been different, it could easily have gone along the lines of "our browser is better because it has all these proprietary commands it understands". Remember how it was in the days when Netscape and IE were the only ones on the block? They would each try to outdo each other with new features they were developing and the whole idea of standardisation was a pipe dream. We had to develop a IE version and a Netscape version of our sites. Now, the browsers are fighting with each other to be more standard than the others. THAT makes life a LOT easier for us! As long as no one has any overpowering majority, they all have to pay attention to each other. Cheers Mike Kear Windsor, NSW, Australia 0422 985 585 Adobe Certified Advanced ColdFusion Developer AFP Webworks Pty Ltd http://afpwebworks.com Full Scale ColdFusion hosting from A$15/month On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 10:18 PM, Tom Chiverton <tom.chiver...@halliwells.com> wrote: > > On Tuesday 03 Mar 2009, Mike Kear wrote: >> For the first time since I started building web sites, IE is not the >> most prominent server on my two highest traffic sites. > > Well, are your users a-typical ? Could you be using Chrome, and skewing the > results ? > > -- > Tom Chiverton > Helping to appropriately disseminate clusters > as part of the IT team of the year, '09 and '08 > > **************************************************** > > This email is sent for and on behalf of Halliwells LLP. > > Halliwells LLP is a limited liability partnership registered in England and > Wales under registered number OC307980 whose registered office address is at > Halliwells LLP, 3 Hardman Square, Spinningfields, Manchester, M3 3EB. A list > of members is available for inspection at the registered office together with > a list of those non members who are referred to as partners. We use the word > partner to refer to a member of the LLP, or an employee or consultant with > equivalent standing and qualifications. Regulated by the Solicitors > Regulation Authority. > > CONFIDENTIALITY > > This email is intended only for the use of the addressee named above and may > be confidential or legally privileged. If you are not the addressee you must > not read it and must not use any information contained in nor copy it nor > inform any person other than Halliwells LLP or the addressee of its existence > or contents. If you have received this email in error please delete it and > notify Halliwells LLP IT Department on 0870 365 2500. > > For more information about Halliwells LLP visit www.halliwells.co > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:320054 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
