Chrome Is the Third Double-Digit Browser 299
An anonymous reader writes "Google's Chrome has taken the 10% market share hurdle, according to Net Applications and is past 15%, according to StatCounter. It is interesting to see that IE is declining at an accelerating pace and IE9 Beta cannot, despite the massive marketing campaign, dent Chrome's growth, while Firefox is holding on to what it has. It almost seems as if IE9 will not be able to turn around the decline of IE."
Re:Here's a constructive comment (Score:2, Insightful)
As a side note, I left FF months ago for Chrome and haven't looked back. I think most of the FF fanbase are those who still remember the glory days of old, not taking note that if you're praising FF and scoffing at IE you're just making yourself look like an ass to anyone who really shops around for software.
As a web developer, (Score:5, Insightful)
even as of this VERY moment, i am having to battle with standard incompliance of various ie versions (including next ones) and the different 'interpretations' they have of the same fucking pages than other browsers.
really
Re:Here's a constructive comment (Score:4, Insightful)
I think it's great that Chrome has surpassed the psychological (but purely arbitrary) milestone of rendering web pages for a double-digit percentage of the internet's population. But the moment they have too much of the percentage is when my approval becomes concern.
Re:Browser support by sites (Score:3, Insightful)
Generally speaking, any site that uses browser detection and refuses to support an unknown browser (or specifically refuses Chrome) will not be visited by me. I can understand using browser detection to refuse to support IE6, or perhaps even IE7. Afterall, those two browsers often require work-arounds to display standards-compliant content. But the default assumption should be the a browser is compliant unless it is otherwise known not to be. If you've coded your site in such a way that it can only work on IE6/IE7, then shame on you. If you've coded your site to presume unknown browsers are non-compliant, double shame on you.
I've tried Chrome, FF, and IE... (Score:3, Insightful)
...and this new version of Slashdot looks horrible in all of them, and doesn't work as well as the previous version in any of them.
Re:Webkit browsers (Score:3, Insightful)
No, I'm not doing it incorrectly. Short term growth trends which are well below some limit are completely sustainable, and in practice are usually sustained until they start to approach their peak saturation. Also, it's not necessary for them to sustain a 7% monthly growth to achieve the result I stated. They're currently gaining approximately 1% of the traffic per month. While that's currently 7%, the percentage growth needed to gain an additional 1% traffic volume will decrease from 7% to about 4% over the next 6--9 months. Nor do they need to gain the same 1% of traffic volume every month to actually reach a total approaching 25%.
Therefore, my 6-9 month trend extrapolation is completely valid and likely, but by no means certain. The other responder's comments and extrapolations are not what I stated, and they are not valid. His calculations are covered by the referenced XKCD, however, mine are not because mine are actually based upon proper trend prediction statistics, not some arbitrary constant growth.
Now, go learn something about statistics and get back to me when you have a valid criticism of my extrapolation.
Re:Here's a constructive comment (Score:4, Insightful)
Balanced people: "So....why should I care? Oh yeah, Microsoft's evil."
As a balanced person (I'm running OS X, Win7, Vista, OpenSuse, and Ubuntu currently); I'd be happy if Chrome/ium, IE, and Firefox were split down the middle. I would be happier if their were ten mainstream browsers with 10% usage. Competition is good.
IE benefited greatly from Firefox. Firefox might benefit from Chrome being around (it needs to, it has turned into a fat, sloppy, unfocused mess). Chrome might benefit from poor old Opera. And Opera will sit in a corner and feel depressed that no one loves it.