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Soon! We Won't Have To Cater To Internet Explorer!

by Corey Geer
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Can you wait for the day Warriors?

The day where you don't have to spend hours on adding functionality only to find out you have to spend even more hours adding CSS hacks and scripting to make it work in awful dreaded IE?

January 2012
Internet Explorer - 20.1%
Internet Explorer 7 - 3.1%

October 2012
Internet Explorer - 16.1%
Internet Explorer 7 - 1.2%

Any Warrior who has to put work around in IE will share my pain. Hopefully in the next couple of years they completely drop development for the browser and work on other projects.
#cater #explorer #internet
  • Profile picture of the author ronc0011
    Like it or not, believe it or not, the world runs on Windows and Windows ships with I.E. so until that changes the majority of users are going to use whatever comes easiest to hand which is most likely going to be the browser that comes preinstalled in the O.S namely I.E.
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    • Profile picture of the author Corey Geer
      Originally Posted by ronc0011 View Post

      Like it or not, believe it or not, the world runs on Windows and Windows ships with I.E. so until that changes the majority of users are going to use whatever comes easiest to hand which is most likely going to be the browser that comes preinstalled in the O.S namely I.E.
      The majority? The current majority of people aren't using IE. As of right now, only 16% of total browsers are using any version of IE.

      Chrome is growing year after year. And thankfully IE's number is getting lower and lower every passing month (no matter how small or large that percentage is).
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    • Profile picture of the author Brandon Tanner
      I don't think that the market share for IE will ever drop to a low enough percentage that we can ignore it, simply for the reason that Ron mentioned. Which means that we're likely always going to have to consider it when designing sites.

      The good news though is that each new version of IE (and every other popular browser, for that matter) keep getting better and better, with regards to standards compliance. Which means that browser-specific stylesheets and hacks will soon be a thing of the past.

      BTW- Your 16% figure sounds about right for sites who's visitors are more tech-savvy than most (ie W3Schools stats). But you'll find that for most of the more "mainstream" sites, the percentage of IE users is still considerably higher than that. Just depends on the niche.
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