Microsoft's browsers return to losing habits, fall to 25% share

Re:Microsoft's browsers return to losing habits, fall to 25%... by thirdsun on Thursday February 02, 2017 @03:15AM (#13548966)

I understand your point and I actually make sure that my websites target IE10 and up, but it usually happens after I'm done in Chrome.

Have you worked with Edge/IE? The pain starts with, as a Mac user, having to boot up a VM and ends with the, in my opinion, horrible development tools compared to Chrome or even Firefox. In this state Edge will never be more than an afterthought.

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Re:Microsoft's browsers return to losing habits, fall to 25%... by pjmlp on Thursday February 02, 2017 @05:41AM (#13549555)

I do the same.

Only IE, Chrome and FF and their mobile versions are relevant on my daily workflow when working on web projects.

Then I get hold of one of our pool Macs and iDevices and check Safari for a few hours.

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Re:Microsoft's browsers return to losing habits, fall to 25%... by jbergens on Thursday February 02, 2017 @03:56AM (#13549106)

If a large percentage of your users have IE/Edge you might want to tests these early on, or even develop with them.

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Re:Microsoft's browsers return to losing habits, fall to 25%... by ominous on Thursday February 02, 2017 @03:54AM (#13549094)

"as a Mac user, having to boot up a VM"

So are you a developer, or a Mac user? Do you develop for Mac users, or users?

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Re:Microsoft's browsers return to losing habits, fall to 25%... by thirdsun on Thursday February 02, 2017 @04:58AM (#13549380)

For users. Yet I happen to be a developer on a Mac like many others. As mentioned before I'll make sure that it works in IE/Edge, but having to jump through hoops to do so will never make me treat the process as more than a checklist item close to finishing the project. Of course I don't expect Windows developers to see it any other way with Safari.

This is a non-issue for cross-platform browsers.

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