Nov 12, 2009

Internet Explorer 6 is the bane of web developers existence. The browser doesn’t support web standards that have become common the last few years, and making sites work in IE 6 adds significant time to the web development process. Despite the release of IE 7 in 2005 and IE 8 in 2009, a full 10% of users still use IE 6. In other words, it is still too big of a group to ignore.

The chart below shows a breakdown of the decline in IE 6 this year. I take this trend line as good news, as IE 6 has lost 8% of market share so far this year. Here’s hoping 2010 is the year IE 6 finally goes away for good.

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http://chairman.microsoft.com Bill

Firefox ‘most insecure browser’ -http://www.tgdaily.com/security-features/44602-firefox-most-insecure-browser
Not holding my breath…

Sadly, we have two major corporate clients that still have ie6 across their network as the “standard”… so while the numbers are dwindling, there still are lots of “worthwhile” clients using it… unfortunately.
http://www.bivingsreport.com Todd Zeigler

@Not Holding My Breath – I’ve witnessed the same phenomenom. It is often big companies that are most likely to still be using IE 6.
Bradley

W3C’s statistics are not a reflection of general users; thy only counts vistors to their site, which is devoted to web developers, who are unlikely to be using IE6.

If you want more accurate results try:
http://gs.statcounter.com/ and
http://marketshare.hitslink.co.....px?qprid=2

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