Comments on: Internet Explorer market share down to 68%

By: too

too — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 22:35:27 +0000

Because of difference between the power user and the open source fanatic power user, both spreading the word and showing IE is not the only choice, for being first I chose Opera. Why? Opera leads in innovations and does it right way. Opera's developer tools are very slick and standards compliance is unbeatable, real world speed and benchmark speed are top, customizations are more than possible (few exceptions exist such as identyfying or masking as Google Bot) and overall experience – speed of interface, mouse gestures etc, all are in my personal opinion putting Opera on top.

Cons of Opera: not everybody knows about it and even if knows, chooses another IE alternative based on generally speaking biased and uninformed opinion.

By: iddoom3

iddoom3 — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 13:15:17 +0000

IE blows. Chrome is very good, needs more browser video plug in support.

By: JR

JR — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 04:31:31 +0000

the sad thing about this is its still at 68%.

By: sacen

sacen — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 02:18:22 +0000

I'm a web developer, IE don't follow the web standards you often needs to do a extra fix for it look the way you want it. I just don't know how that market share is calculated. I don't trust it.

Go to http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp

The only people who use IE: 1 because IE comes with Windows. 2 because people never tried firefox.

IE 6 will be gone maybe when IE 8 comes out.

2008 IE7 IE6 Chrome Fx Moz S O
November 26.6% 20.0% 3.1% 44.2% 0.4% 2.7% 2.3%
October 26.9% 20.2% 3.0% 44.0% 0.4% 2.8% 2.2%
September 26.3% 22.3% 3.1% 42.6% 0.5% 2.7% 2.0%

By: blank

blank — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 01:44:58 +0000

donjaun, even if ie8 beta rocks. ie didn't start to 'rock' until other browsers forced them to up their game.that's right seems if it wasn't for the 'others' out there the 'market leader' i.e. still wouldn't give a damn about you/us.

and the last review i read of i.e. it just seemed to be 'borrowing' ideas opera and firefox brought to the table.(without adding much else) maybe that's changed now. but i doubt it's changed by much.

By: looloo

looloo — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 01:41:24 +0000

I'm using Chrome, it's just great!

By: blank

blank — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 01:37:53 +0000

still a fan of opera. yep, it has no marketshare but i like it over firefox.:)

By: pimplejuice

pimplejuice — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 01:33:35 +0000

umm, thanks for another useless tidbit of info martin.

By: Alexander

Alexander — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 01:00:36 +0000

Firebug was the only real reason to use FF (there are no reasons at all to use IE). Since Dragonfly is out, Opera is all the connoisseur needs…

By: DonJuan

DonJuan — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 00:39:21 +0000

i am now using ie8 beta, it rocks baby, so much better than ie7

By: ryan

ryan — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 00:06:32 +0000

GOOGLE CHROME DOESNT SUPPORT RSS FEEDS WHICH IS A DOWNER FOR ME SINCE I RSS LIKE 4 CATEGORIES FROM THIS WEBSITE.

By: Jon

Jon — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 23:59:01 +0000

Some of you should look this word up because you are obviously one: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/fanatic

Opera sucks. Chrome sucks. Firefox sucks. Internet Explorer sucks. Etc. Blah, blah, blah. Come on already, who cares what someone else uses?

By: lulz

lulz — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 23:08:05 +0000

Opera sux hard. Chrome isn't much better. Firefox is where it's at!

By: Hmmmm

Hmmmm — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 22:35:51 +0000

Well nvm it helps to re-read…..I dunno why people are holding so dearly still to IE. I like Firefox more than IE but I've grown much more fond of Opera to Firefox.

By: Hmmmm

Hmmmm — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 22:31:53 +0000

Wow so Opera doesn't exist? Where's the love?