by Administrator
3. February 2011 20:36
About the Browser
Browsers have come a long way since the first Netscape browser that was popular in the early 1990's, which was taken over in popularity by Microsoft's internet explorer-and many others which were of little significance to us as South African users.
Today the popularity has shifted somewhat to others that boast a huge array of features that most of us will never be able to use. Check out the top rated browsers for 2011 at http://internet-browser-review.toptenreviews.com/
What beats me is that we still have web surfers-are we still called web surfers?- that use probably the worst browser ever developed. Internet Explorer version 6. If you are one of these change now...please. The is absolutely nothing good about this browser, which came out with very early version of Windows XP. We have moved on since then, move with us.
It is absolute madness for the web developers because we need to build to suit all browsers otherwise we miss out on those visitors that ARE still using the deplorable IE6 and it is a nightmare-thanks Bill.
According to a 2009 statistics report the most popular browser is Internet Explorer with 47 percent users (12%) of those are still using IE6. Next comes Mozilla Firefox with 42% the Safari 3.8 and Chrome with 3.5 and 5th is Opera with 2.2
Well things have changed drastically since the 2009 a poll run a year later with 14000 votes puts Mozilla Firefox first, Google Chrome second, Opera third, Internet explorer fourth and Safari fifth.
And I am still flabbergasted that we have a huge percentage of Internet Explore 6 users.
Us as web developer have made a drastic decision not to support IE6, if our clients want us to cater for this low percentage of users we would need to charge them extra, why for a dying product.
Go and get any of the others they are FREE!
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