Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 15th Jul 2007 16:06 UTC, submitted by netpython
Mozilla's Firefox web browser has made dramatic gains on Microsoft's Internet Explorer throughout Europe in the past year with a marked upturn in FF use compared to IE over the past four months, according to French web monitoring service XiTiMonitor. A study of nearly 96,000 websites carried out during the week of July 2 to July 8 found that FF had 27.8% market share across Eastern and Western Europe, IE had 66.5%, with other browsers including Safari and Opera making up the remaining 5.7%. The July market share represents a massive 3.7% rise since a similar survey in March.
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2007-02-22
make your "code" clean and according to w3c specifications, and if some browser chooses not to work, well so what?
This could be the fastest way to get Microsoft to update IE, methinks (provided the W3C specifications used are well supported by the other browsers), but there are a few major caveats.
If enough sites don't render correctly in IE and that starts driving people away from it in droves, I see Microsoft completely rewriting Trident from scratch to be as standards-compliant as possible, or maybe even licensing or buying another rendering engine.
But the problem is actually getting the people to use something else because it's more standards-compliant. Joe Sixpack doesn't understand or care about web standards. And IE7 has most of the "killer features" Firefox and Opera have that would have sent Joe Sixpack looking at those browsers. Hell, an otherwise competent, computer-genius buddy of mine doesn't care--he thinks whoever has the most usage share should dictate 'standards'. He uses Opera, but the whole standards fiasco is a non-issue to him.
Another problem is you will lose a lot of visitors in the short-term, and profit-generating visitors are what drive a lot of the 'major' sites on the Internet.
Really, I don't care what browser people use, as long as the vast majority of 'em are using a reasonably standards-compliant one--even if that browser is an updated IE.
Edited 2007-07-15 21:37