Market Share based developement.
Its always nice to be proven right.
People that develop in CSS/AJAX/web2.0 tend to complain about IE not being standards compliant. I keep asking myself though, what makes something standard? I would imagine that to be a standard, it would be the most practiced practice. Aparently my belief in using dictionaries to define english words is misplaced.
IE6 is the "standard" as far as I'm concerned, but don't let just me tell you that. http://marketshare.hitslink.com/report.aspx?qprid=3
The problem is that people that have to worry about code being standards compliant are usually very technical people. They are or are surrounded by linux nerds, OSS advocates, mac fanboi's and the like. This leads to a huge distortion in their minds as to whom they are developing for.
Let me enlighten you.
The most disturbing statistic on that page is that google only has 75ish % market share.
People that develop in CSS/AJAX/web2.0 tend to complain about IE not being standards compliant. I keep asking myself though, what makes something standard? I would imagine that to be a standard, it would be the most practiced practice. Aparently my belief in using dictionaries to define english words is misplaced.
IE6 is the "standard" as far as I'm concerned, but don't let just me tell you that. http://marketshare.hitslink.com/report.aspx?qprid=3
The problem is that people that have to worry about code being standards compliant are usually very technical people. They are or are surrounded by linux nerds, OSS advocates, mac fanboi's and the like. This leads to a huge distortion in their minds as to whom they are developing for.
Let me enlighten you.
The most disturbing statistic on that page is that google only has 75ish % market share.
posted by umopapisdnwi at
11:32 AM
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The funny thing here is that Windows XP is gaining market share linerally
October, 2005 77.44%
November, 2005 77.92%
December, 2005 78.92%
January, 2006 79.90%
February, 2006 80.17%
March, 2006 80.70%
April, 2006 81.79%
May, 2006 81.93%
June, 2006 82.68%
July, 2006 83.65%
August, 2006 84.18%
September, 2006 84.56%
http://marketshare.hitslink.com/report.aspx?qprid=5&qpdt=1&qpct=4&qpcustom=Windows+XP&qptimeframe=M&qpsp=81&qpnp=12
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Evan Reiser, at 12:09 PM
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