[ale] Firefox surpasses IE6's browser share in October

[Jeff Lightner]

I can't speak to web statistics but in my experience there are a heck of lot more people I know using IE than Firefox even though I regularly preach the benefits of the latter.   

Unfortunately there are some things that only seem to work properly in IE (due to lazy design by 3rd parties or explicit design for things like Sharepoint).  Some people don't want to deal with two browsers (or load add-ons like IEtab).

-----Original Message-----
From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of Richard Bronosky
Sent: Monday, November 09, 2009 3:22 PM
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts - Yes! We run Linux!
Subject: Re: [ale] Firefox surpasses IE6's browser share in October

W3schools' stats have been discussed here before. Unfortunately the
people interested in educating themselves on web standards compliance
do not accurately represent the public as a whole. If they did, then
IE would have had the lowest market share for the past decade, and not
the highest. You could also flaunt the stats gathered by slashdot.com,
but again there would be no surprises in the numbers.

On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 12:22 PM, Greg Clifton <gccfof5 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I've always gone to w3schools for my browser stats and it shows FF is way out in front of ALL versions of IE combined.
> See for you self http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp
>
> Regards,
> Greg Clifton
>
> On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 9:28 AM, Jeff Lightner <jlightner at water.com> wrote:
>>
>> While it seems relevant to say IE overall is losing share while Firefox
>> is gaining saying IE6 is losing to Firefox seems a little specious to
>> me.
>>
>> It's a bit like saying my $50 had increase over your $100 because my
>> money was all in ones while yours was all in fifties.
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of
>> krwatson at cc.gatech.edu
>> Sent: Monday, November 09, 2009 8:40 AM
>> To: ale at ale.org
>> Subject: [ale] Firefox surpasses IE6's browser share in October
>>
>> Firefox surpasses IE6's browser share in October
>> http://www.techspot.com/news/36831-firefox-surpasses-ie6s-browser-share-
>> in-october.html
>>
>> http://preview.tinyurl.com/ybztm2y
>>
>> keith
>>
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