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November 09, 2005
Who cares about 80 million?
I was reading an article in eWeek by Jim Rapoza called Sunny with a chance of standards who said there over 570 million web users, with up to 80 million of those having problems with some web pages.
At least, with Internet Explorer use estimated to be around 85%, that means there are a lot of people using a different browser.
I was busy working yesterday and didn't do much surfing, but did see a number of pages that didn't work well with a non-Microsoft browser.
He says:
For a long time, companies that have built IE-only sites have fallen back to the standard excuse of "Hey, just about everyone uses IE."
Well, 85 percent of browser users is not "just about everyone."
Then he goes on to say, "Internet Explorer's falling market share is good news for the future of Web design."
But a lot of the problem he says in mainstreaming another browser other than IE is that it needs to be adopted by business users and applications. He suggests it needs more support from business, and he doesn't see it happening. But lately other reports I have read said Hewlett-Packard and Compaq were both going to be offering Netscape on all new consumer computers sold next year. I think this will be a help.
The future version of IE will address some of the hacks we have been using because of its lack of support for standards, but there will still be some CSS bugs evident in IE 7 that ships next year with Windows Vista.
I'm sure as the popularity for other browser grows, IE will have to increase their support for web standards if they want to continue to be the dominant browser.
Posted by Steve MacLellan at November 9, 2005 03:57 PM
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