I was having a look at our corporate website statistics and thought I would share some numbers.
The percentage of website visitors who use Internet Explorer 6 is now 27.7%. If we exclude internal University traffic then this number drops to 23.2%. This is good news for web developers who have for a long time suffered from the headache of having to code for a browser with such poor standards compliance.
It's a bit 'old news' for those on the bleeding edge of web technology but Microsoft has released the second beta of Internet Explorer 8.
Comments
I've always has trouble making my sites look like they're meant to in IE 6, and I think the infamous security hole discovered recently has led to a huge decline in IE 6 use.
However I'm not sure if Firefox 3 is much better, it's also got rendering bugs. I had a issue recently with a div tag the disabled all the (unrelated) links and form-elements on the page.
But at least Firefox has a quicker update schedule.
Posted by: Sydney Web Design | March 19, 2009 10:10 PM