You don't by any chance use chrome yourself while you're developing? I noticed that I mainly use Firefox and I had to stop going back to the site after it was built to allow the data / statistics to clean themselves of my bias.
William Donovan mobile: 0403 263 284 2009/3/3 Mike Kear <[email protected]> > In my case, the sample is fairly small, and I never suggested it was > representative of the internet as a whole. The bigger of the two sites > I've > used is a radio station. It has 54,000 user sessions in that set of stats. > > All I was saying is it's the first time I've seen IE as not the top > browser. > (one swallow does not a summer make!) > > It's clear from this discussion that the numbers are all over the place. > There are people at the radio station who try to tell me that the world is > going mac and we ought to be replacing our network to macs. I say these > stats don't support that, at least in our case, and whether or not we > should > replace our network to macs needs to be for a reason other than 'that's > what > everyone else is using'! (which was never a good reason in the first > place!) > > There were those who were saying not all that long ago that IE was a > gonner, > and we'd all best pay attention to Opera. Then along came Firefox, now > I'd suggest it's anyone's race and the main contenders are IE, Firefox, > Chrome and all the others together add up to a long way behind. > > The significance for us as web developers is that all this competition is > tending towards standardisation. If things had been different, it could > easily have gone along the lines of "our browser is better because it has > all these proprietary commands it understands". Remember how it was in > the > days when Netscape and IE were the only ones on the block? They would > each try to outdo each other with new features they were developing and the > whole idea of standardisation was a pipe dream. We had to develop a IE > version and a Netscape version of our sites. Now, the browsers are > righting with each other to be more standard than the others. > > THAT makes life a LOT easier for us! As long as no one has any > overpowering > majority, they all have to pay attention to each other. > > > Cheers > Mike Kear > Windsor, NSW, Australia > 0422 985 585 > Adobe Certified Advanced ColdFusion Developer > AFP Webworks Pty Ltd > http://afpwebworks.com > Full Scale ColdFusion hosting from A$15/month > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Al Sparber > Sent: Tuesday, 3 March 2009 4:23 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [WSG] Chrome now higher traffic than IE > > From: "Nick Cowie" <[email protected]> > > > OK here are some other interesting stats from another major library > > site, IE7 rules and Chrome is > 0.5% > > > > Browser Website IE7/IE6 > > Internet Explorer 86.88% (80/20) > > Firefox 9.29% > > Safari 2.17% > > Chrome 0.47% > > Opera 0.27% > > Fascinating. > > Can you provide some demographic context to this library site? > > -- > Al Sparber - PVII > http://www.projectseven.com > Dreamweaver Menus | Galleries | Widgets > http://www.projectseven.com/go/pop > The Ultimate DW Menu System > > > > > > ******************************************************************* > List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm > Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm > Help: [email protected] > ******************************************************************* > > ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [email protected] *******************************************************************
