Re:Google Chrome has 20% global market share
by pilif on Friday July 01, 2011 @10:43AM
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sigh - the end users of the application I'm working on use 70%-90% IE depending on the platform. I wish this would change, but I doubt it as IE still is a major player in the enterprise market.
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The great thing about IE being now a minority browser is that web developers can now say "Oh you want IE6/7/8 support? Oh, that's a minority browser that doesn't support recent things, we can't do that/will charge lots more/etc."
Re:Google Chrome has 20% global market share
by MartinCron on Friday July 01, 2011 @04:55PM
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I think the phrase you're looking for is "plurality browser".
Which means we can finally change from text/html to application/xhtml+xml. This way IE8 and earlier users will get a download message, and you won't have to worry about polyglot/Appendix C anymore.
Minority? Sure, if compared to every other browser. But in that respect, surely every browser is a minority browser?
No, IE/IE6 used to be a majority browser. It used to have 80%+ of the browser share. You could not refuse it. Now, you can.
"The Enterprise" operates at a glacial pace and has been holding back innovation on the web. "The Enterprise" is the reason why 10% of Internet users are still using IE6. I'm glad Mozilla is ignoring the Enterprise.
Re:Google Chrome has 20% global market share
by kalleboo on Friday July 01, 2011 @11:14AM
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I guess I'm luckily in that at my work, WebKit (Safari+Chrome) represents 60% of the visitors, with the rest being split among Firefox (20%) and IE (10%, which we don't even bother testing for)
I can't tell numbers but our perception is the same. From these people, who are educated enough to pay for our service? Haha
Anyway, it works ie7 upwards (tested), but they are getting hard corners and anybody cares.
Very odd, what sector has a majority of Safari/Chrome users? Even general public (non-enterprise) wouldn't skew like that.
Anything aimed at technologists (e.g. this website), or any site aimed at Apple users/developers.
My QrCode app (60% from France)
10% IE
30% Chrome/Safari
60% FireFox
Anything tablet-centric?