good news: google chrome hits 20% of the market!

Just wanted to share the good news with you: google chrome hits 20% of the market and finally, chrome + firefox beats IE (with all its crappy browsers): 48.7% to 44%

As far as I’m concerned, this is great news and I hope in two years or so we won’t have to worry about IE anymore.

these are not the numbers I see when I look at the analytics from my websites, IE still predominates and will continue to do so as long as IE is bundled with the O/S.

really depends on your audience for your web site, mine are not technical sites at all. my one site is closer to being a technical site than the other, which is totally not a technical site at all.

al

ps just went and looked at my analytics

site1: IE 42 %, FF 37 %, S 10 %, Ch 9%

site2: IE 81 %, FF 10 %, S 8 %, Ch .68%

in both sites, Chrome is a minority browser

really does depend on what kind of a site you are talking about, and whether or not you support the browsers your viewers use, as long as you do that and the users use whatever browser, then you will support that browser. trying to convince your users to use a specific browser of your choice just will not work, at least for me.

al_m473 said

really depends on your audience for your web site, mine are not technical sites at all. my one site is closer to being a technical site than the other, which is totally not a technical site at all.

That’s definitely true. We got the approval back in 2009 to forgo IE6 support on Steve’s Digicams. Our analytics showed a very low use of IE6 , and a really high percentage of Safari users. About what you’d expect from an audience interested in professional digital cameras.

That is fantastic news! Live will be so much easier when we don’t need to speak anymore about IE. Let’s hope this day will come soon.