Ars takes a closer look at the Internet Explorer 8 beta (released yesterday), and concludes. "Niggles aside, IE8 is shaping up quite well. Clearly, a lot of work has been done on standards compliance, and it looks like it's paying off. If IE8's development continues down the path it's on, it will finally be a version of Internet Explorer fit for the 21st century."
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Member since:2005-12-15
Not really sure where they're coming back from. It's true their market share has dwindled, but to the average punter this makes little difference because IE is basically all they know.
For more advanced users like the majority of us on here, but specifically myself, it'd be a hard call to say that IE would take back my preference as my primary browser. Standards compliance aside, there's more to the Firefox browser that puts it above and beyond IE, and it's these reasons at least I choose in part to use Firefox.
I already have a standards compliant browser which is doing exactly what I want it to do on the web. I only keep IE for those sites which are "IE designed".
Member since:2005-07-08
Maybe so. But in many parts of Europe, Firefox is already as big as IE according to statistics, and Opera is popular too. And it is not that many years ago when many organizations used Netscape as their official main browser. If people are smart enough to install other software on their machines besides of the default MS Windows stuff like Notepad and Patience, why wouldn't they bother installing a better browser too? Things like popularity of browsers can change.
Member since:2005-07-17
Here's a map of Firefox market share in Europe.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/nitot/2234639770/sizes/o/
Firefox is not advanced user browser anymore· It has momentum, mainly due to better security.
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2006-01-07
Good to see something changeing in right direction.
Will it gain back popularity? Isn't it too little too late? Thoughts buzzing in my head, thus I'll keep silence for a while instead;)