Indeed and while IE usage worldwide is dropping rapidly, mostly in favour of Chrome (for good reasons) it will still be many years before IE<9 drops to < 5% of the market, which is the point at which most developers would cut it loose.
See http://gs.statcounter.com/ IE is currently about 46% of the global market. It has lost around 10% in the last 12 months. Even if that rate continued (it won't as it tails off) we'll still have it hanging around (like the proverbial bad smell) for 4 long years. Note that IE9 doesn't yet appear in the stats, which is not all that surprising as it's still in beta, so, don't get excited about accessing it's features any time soon. It being only available to Win7 users will also mean it's stats will forever be linked to Win7 take-up, which is solid but will take many years to supplant XP. Guy On 10/02/2011, at 4:55 AM, Jacob Beard wrote: > > > On 11-02-09 12:31 PM, cremnosedum wrote: >> >> nobody will be using versions of IE prior to 9. Perhaps I'm being >> over optimistic or missing something. >> > IE9 won't be supported on Windows versions prior to Vista, so it's > likely IE6-8 will be around for a long time to come. > > Jake > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > ------------------------------------ > > ----- > To unsubscribe send a message to: svg-developers-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com > -or- > visit http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers and click "edit my > membership" > ----Yahoo! Groups Links > > > ------------------------------------ ----- To unsubscribe send a message to: svg-developers-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com -or- visit http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers and click "edit my membership" ----Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: svg-developers-dig...@yahoogroups.com svg-developers-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: svg-developers-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
