Comments on: Death to Internet Explorer! Long Live Internet Explorer!

By: John

John — Tue, 18 May 2010 10:56:39 +0000

Is this the only fucking information from mozilla how to fix a plugin that worked until 3.5? Are you fucked up at mozilla, not to provide ANY information about how to pass your bullshit plugin check besides some foreign bullshit blog? damed…

By: The Rise of Google Chrome

The Rise of Google Chrome — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 12:33:17 +0000

[...] web development) than in the general population. For web developers in particular, it has long been frustrating to deal with MSIE’s being stubbornly non-standard in many different areas. However, because [...]

By: Ken Pier

Ken Pier — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 01:49:21 +0000

As a SaaS vendor, both hosted and behind the firewall SaaS appliance, we have a number of customers who may never move off of IE 6 or IE 7. They have custom browser-based applications of their own that they can’t or don’t want to port to more modern browsers. Yes, they pay a big price in performance, but that is not their primary concern. So in order to continue to serve them, we need to continue to develop and test in IE 6/7/8 for business, not technical, reasons, at least for the forseeable future.

By: Geva Perry

Geva Perry — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 07:05:47 +0000

Jason — Great post. I personally am switching back and forth between Chrome and FF. For some “strange” reason, I am having a lot of problems with running Google Apps and Gmail on FF. But that’s a different story…

@Mike Verinder: note that Google didn’t say they are not supporting IE in general, just IE6, which even Microsoft is encouraging users to move away from.

For those interested, there is a great piece on TechCrunch today about updated browser market share rankings and the issue of the dynamics among IE versions 6, 7 and 8. Check it out here: http://www.techcrunch.com/2010/02/02/internet-explorer-browser-share/

On my own blog, http://gevaperry.typepad.com, which is a small sample and mostly of “alpha geeks” and generally, tech-savvy early adopters, Firefox is already leading with 43.49% versus 28.64% for IE at number two. Although not statistically significant — I consider this a leading indicator.

Geva

By: Mike Verinder

Mike Verinder — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 05:12:33 +0000

I agree with a lot of those comments, but quite honestly with the huge demand out there for IE it would be nuts not to support it. That demand has also built a market place of some SaaS offerings only supporting an IE environment and not even worrying about other browsers. This has built a strange relationship indeed but honestly until someone actually puts some marketing revenue out there to help drastically change the marketshare. I dont see any of this really changing.

Off the clock, I use a mix of IE, Firefox,and Chrome. There are certain things I like and dislike about all three. Chrome is probably my favorite.. but whenever i run into a bug.. i startup one of the others.. That being said.. as i write this. I’m looking at the top of my browser window.. sure enough.. its IE 8