That's one way to look at it. Here's another. Of the traffic measured by statcounter.com, about 30% consists of Firefox versions (22% + 8%) and about 56% consists of IE versions (21% + 20% + 14%). Since most sites probably don't use statcounter.com, these numbers are pretty arbitrary. However, a 2-to-1 win for IE over Firefox is what I've seen in other recent comparisons as well. That's why I still run Selenium tests on a Windows box, for the sake of native IE testing.
There's certainly some progress for Firefox in growing their slice of the pie recently. It's no longer enough to target IE alone if you need 90% perceived correctness in your web site. My hunch is that this trend is partly due to gradual cultural changes towards a more computer-savvy population. The effect may plateau when the remaining IE users are the ones who will never care about any of the reasons to switch from Windows or from IE. Cheers, Joe Sondow On Dec 21, 12:34 pm, vogella <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > this stat is interesting, seems like Firefox 3.5 is now the most used > browser. > > http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser_version-ww-weekly-200827-200951 > > Best regards, Lars -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
