“The latest version of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer browser has grabbed nearly one-third of the worldwide browser market, according to a new study. IE 6 was released last August, and in its first week on the market grabbed a 2.4 percent share, according to StatMarket, a division of audience measurement service WebSideStory. StatMarket said Wednesday that that figure has risen to 30.4 percent, making it the second most popular browser behind its predecessor, Microsoft’s IE 5.” What the article fails to mention is that, overall, the IE browsers gather more than 82% of the market. In other Internet news, ExtremeTech has a very interesting article regarding IPv6: “The Promise, The Problems, The Protocol”.
IE 6 Garners One-Third of Browser Market & IPv6
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It is better than Mozilla 0.9.9 !
Of course it has become the first quickly…
some time ago I had to install MsMoney… This **** piece of software insisted in updating Explorer, while I had IE5.0 and I didn’t intend to change it at all !
No way it’s not better than Mozilla, because Mozilla is Free, OpenSource, not proprietary, and this one ISN’T.
Mozilla is Free, OpenSource, not proprietary, and this one ISN’T…
sadly, though…. IE6 is fast..usable.. non-crashy and attractive… and thats what most people go for in software… plus the outlook express client beats Moz for usability hands down.
It might have dodgy standards adherance, it might be easy to virus if u dont have a decent AV installed, it might get its speed from windows integration not true design.. but it still beats Mozilla, sadly, on those grounds.
No way it’s not better than Mozilla, because Mozilla is Free, OpenSource, not proprietary, and this one ISN’T.
I think most people define “better” as faster, more reliable, and with more useful features. If you reduce the “quality” of software to a moral argument, you create excuses for never catching up to the proprietary stuff in the usability department.
opera is better
OPERA is far far far better.
Mozilla is hungry.
I’m on a P166+debian linux and opera works great, netscape 4.77 ok, mozilla slow.
i like what mozilla has to offer – and would run it on a more highend system with no worries.
You won’t get viruses if you don’t use MS products –
a – because your less likely to get on written to affect you
b – you’ve probably got enuf up stairs to know what to do when you get something dodgy.
Opera could be better but everytime I’ve tried it and then upgraded it (from 4 to 5, 5 to 5.something, and then 5.something to 6) it screwed up all my plugins. IE has yet to do that when I upgrade (granted going from 5.5 to 6 made some plugins so they didn’t work, but 2 of my opera upgrades ruined the install so badly I had to uninstall/reinstall). If they fix that and actually read any technical questions properly (I was a paying customer and they misread a question I had, and it took them a week to answer it in the first place) they would be the best browser on the market.
…if Galeon got ported to Win32.
Here’s a hint: Most web sites run by people who know what they’re doing don’t report to WebSiteBoring.
When a million BeZilla users check CmdrTaco’s quickies, then pop to NTK, and spend two hours playing with the Human Virus Scanner they register ZERO HITS on this “worldwide market share”. Last time I bothered to check I visit hundreds of pages a day, and touch websiteboring trackers LESS THAN ONCE A MONTH.
WebSiteBoring measures nothing but “me too” sites, it’s like trying to figure out the most popular video release by ignoring BlockBuster, high street stores and public libraries, and instead measuring only seedy back street video shops. So IE 6.0 is now the browser of choice of people who don’t know where to go on the web to get high quality information. And Debby Does Dallas shares the #1 spot with Forest Gump.
If you aspire to be more than “me too” then I recommend looking in your own logs, and drawing your own conclusions.
For us that meant no more IE 4.x testing, because we found that IE 4.x users were in a smaller minority even than Opera users, and way behind Gecko based browsers. We test to W3C first, bug fix for IE and Gecko, then “ship it”.
If you aspire to be more than “me too” then I recommend looking in your own logs, and drawing your own conclusions.
For us that meant no more IE 4.x testing, because we found that IE 4.x users were in a smaller minority even than Opera users, and way behind Gecko based browsers. We test to W3C first, bug fix for IE and Gecko, then “ship it”.
That just makes sense, everyone should be checking their own logs once their website is up, rather than looking at some webstats firm. However, someone looking to put up a new site needs something to look at, because they don’t have those logs. It should be fairly obvious to most that /. is going to have a particular mix of browsers hitting it that won’t be the same as microsoft.com, and my site probably won’t have the same mix as your site. I can afford to target only IE because my content is useless to people without Windows in the first place (and I’m not selling anything on my site, so wtf cares if someone doesnt visit), the same can’t be said about the corporate site of the company I work for, and I change my HTML habits accordingly (then again, I try to avoid doing any HTML for work, fairly boring imo).