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May 3rd, 2010 at 08:15 AM
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Jimmy the Sailor
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I do my sites really simple. I use the editor preview for most of the things. Sometimes i open with IE (I use FF) , Opera and Chrome.
I really don´t care about IE6 issues and others issues. Just maintain simple and clean.
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May 3rd, 2010 at 10:33 AM
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Widoktadwat
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Highcountry wrote:


I DO make a living building websites, and although I despise IE, I always check it for compatibility since it still garners over a 70% share of the public.


Where do you get that number? I get a variety of numbers depending on where you look, but none as high as 70%.

http://marketshare.hitslink.com/report.aspx?qprid=0

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

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_shar … b_browsers

http://gs.statcounter.com/
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May 3rd, 2010 at 10:41 AM
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Lowell Ziegler wrote:
Highcountry wrote:


I DO make a living building websites, and although I despise IE, I always check it for compatibility since it still garners over a 70% share of the public.


Where do you get that number? I get a variety of numbers depending on where you look, but none as high as 70%.

http://marketshare.hitslink.com/report.aspx?qprid=0

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

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_shar … b_browsers

http://gs.statcounter.com/


Yea, I don't think it is 70%. I think in the latest literature I have read I have seen somewhere around 55% and Mozilla carrying 30-35%.

Although, In related news, I just read that support for CSS3 in IE8 is scarce. Very disappointed with the Microsoft folks. You think they would have learned after IE6.
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May 3rd, 2010 at 05:06 PM
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Whatever the percentage is - and how do you know exactly anyway - the figure for IE is significant.


Eric English wrote:
Although, In related news, I just read that support for CSS3 in IE8 is scarce. Very disappointed with the Microsoft folks. You think they would have learned after IE6.

I'm disappointed too. Companies as big as Microsoft never seem to learn.
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May 3rd, 2010 at 05:08 PM
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Zipper wrote:
Whatever the percentage is - and how do you know exactly anyway - the figure for IE is significant.


Eric English wrote:
Although, In related news, I just read that support for CSS3 in IE8 is scarce. Very disappointed with the Microsoft folks. You think they would have learned after IE6.

I'm disappointed too. Companies as big as Microsoft never seem to learn.


I have learned that in general 1/3 of the browser market is Mozilla, and at least half is IE. I think those are good numbers to operate under. Until Mozilla takes over the world anyways. :D
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May 3rd, 2010 at 06:28 PM
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Wow -- Thought it would be easy to document this, but I just did a search and found several different, conflicting answers from seemingly reliable sources! Don't know which one to believe! :/

I do know this: IE is the one that I use only when necessary, which is pretty much just to visit Microsoft Update.

And sometimes I'll use Firefox with IE Tab 2 to do that and avoid IE entirely...
May 3rd, 2010 at 07:07 PM
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May 3rd, 2010 at 07:10 PM
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tassietiger
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You will get different answers depending on the type of site.

If the site is a techy type site you are more likely to get FF users but if its a site that has the general Jack or Jill who uses their computer straight from the box then they will probably be using whatever IE was installed.

So when developing your site you need to know the demographic of those most likely to use it and design accordingly.
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May 3rd, 2010 at 07:42 PM
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Browser Statistics Month by Month
2010------ IE8 -----IE7-----IE6------Firefox----Chrome----Safari----Opera
April-----16.2%---9.3%--7.9%-----46.4%---13.6%------3.7%------2.2%

IE is going DOWN!!! BIGTIME!!! http://www.pixieplots.co.nz/forum/images/smilies/thumbup.gif
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May 3rd, 2010 at 08:19 PM
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IE 6 numbers still amaze me.
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