Enough people have told me their figures are completely different to mine, but I don't much care about that. The point is the same - while IE is no longer the towering majority in the web browser wars, we have a fighting chance of bringing sanity to browsers. If IE7 became the 80%-90% browser like IE5 once was, then at Microsoft they'll be starting to say once more "we don't have to care about standards - we ARE the standard and everyone else will have to match what we do!"
Thankfully, Firefox and Chrome are going to ensure Microsoft doesn't get into that position again. TO answer your specific question, William, yes I use Chrome myself while I'm developing but i hardly ever browse the site. I usually browse the development version of this site while I'm working on it, and only ever go to the production version of the site to check a page I've just uploaded is the same as on my dev machine. So my own browsing is not significant in those numbers. Cheers Mike Kear Windsor, NSW, Australia 0422 985 585 Adobe Certified Advanced ColdFusion Developer AFP Webworks Pty Ltd <http://afpwebworks.com> http://afpwebworks.com Full Scale ColdFusion hosting from A$15/month From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of William Donovan Sent: Tuesday, 3 March 2009 10:54 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [WSG] Chrome now higher traffic than IE You don't by any chance use chrome yourself while you're developing? I noticed that I mainly use Firefox and I had to stop going back to the site after it was built to allow the data / statistics to clean themselves of my bias. William Donovan mobile: 0403 263 284 2009/3/3 Mike Kear <[email protected]> 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!) It's clear from this discussion that the numbers are all over the place. 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 don't 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 'that's 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 righting 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 -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Al Sparber Sent: Tuesday, 3 March 2009 4:23 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [WSG] Chrome now higher traffic than IE From: "Nick Cowie" <[email protected]> > OK here are some other interesting stats from another major library > site, IE7 rules and Chrome is > 0.5% > > Browser Website IE7/IE6 > Internet Explorer 86.88% (80/20) > Firefox 9.29% > Safari 2.17% > Chrome 0.47% > Opera 0.27% Fascinating. Can you provide some demographic context to this library site? -- Al Sparber - PVII http://www.projectseven.com Dreamweaver Menus | Galleries | Widgets http://www.projectseven.com/go/pop The Ultimate DW Menu System ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [email protected] ******************************************************************* ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [email protected] ******************************************************************* No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 8.0.237 / Virus Database: 270.11.3/1974 - Release Date: 02/26/09 14:51:00 ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [email protected] *******************************************************************
