[Woodcarver] Web Hosting-browsers (Chat)

[Byron]

Barney,

Those of us that are in the in or around the internet business world have grown to understand a bit about how these things work.   We read a lot of information some from places like Cnet and many others.  I mentioned Cnet because it probably the best known source of internet information.  I also read from places like Site Point.   A couple of things about IE have been known for years, one is the security holes and the other is MS doesn't adhere to the standards.   When some of us write the code for a web site we follow the standards, then we have either make changes or detect that your browser is IE and create special code just to accommodate IE.    It is often thought that MS tries to make things difficult for users of non MS applications and thereby have created some negatives among some of us.    When IE 8 was about to be released MS pulled it back and redid some it to make it closer to operating like the standards, to much relief of the web developers.

So there you have it.  Some people will continue to use IE  and others wont.  Web developers will continue to accommodate MS and IE, we just would rather not have to do that.

Byron


-----Original Message-----

From: Barney Barnhardt 

Sent: Aug 4, 2009 1:51 PM

To: "'[Woodcarver]'" 

Subject: Re: [Woodcarver] Web Hosting-browsers (Chat)
























As indicated on w3schools site, these
figures are not necessarily 100% correct


>From their site 


“These facts indicate that
the browser figures above are not 100% realistic. Other web sites have
statistics showing that Internet Explorer is used by at least 80% of the users.”

 

Why should I as a IE user even consider
changing to another browser such as Firefox?  I checked their site and the
only comparison I saw is of their version 3 vs 3.5.  There is no
comparison of their product and IE.  Don’t know about you folks, but
it usually takes a little more than a verbal statement without corroborating
facts to induce me to make a significant change in something like this.  I’m
not trying to hammer you Firefox folks here so don’t even start to think
that, but I’ve heard the alternate browser talk for years, but have “never”
seen anything to give me even a bit of a reason to change.  I’m open
to hearing any good reasons you may have.  

 

Barney

 









From:
woodcarver-bounces at carverscompanion.com
[mailto:woodcarver-bounces at carverscompanion.com] On Behalf Of Marcia Berkall

Sent: Tuesday, August 04, 2009
8:07 AM

To: [Woodcarver]

Subject: [Woodcarver]
Web Hosting-browsers (Chat)



 

There is.  Firefox is more and more popular all the time! 
Here are some current statistics from http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp



Browser
Statistics Month by Month

2009  IE7
      IE6
      IE8
      Firefox     
Chrome
      Safari      Opera 

July   15.9%   14.4%   
9.1%    
47.9%        
6.5%        
3.3%         2.1%



Personally, I avoid using IE whenever I can.  You can often tell a site
that was done using FrontPage (or other MS software)...they  don't work
correctly in other browsers.



Marcia (aka Mush)







 Then why isn't there more use of other browsers?  

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