In the past month or so, we’ve been inundated with announcements by browser makers of the latest versions of their products. Google, Microsoft, the Mozilla Foundation and Opera have all unveiled their latest and greatest browsers. Most of these companies unveiled full versions of their products after having them in beta for a while, but Microsoft pipped them all when it announced the preview of Internet Explorer 10 was available for download at its Mix event in Las Vegas Tuesday. That was just less than a month after the official rollout of Internet Explorer 9.
Along the line of the web browser stats as suggested by the other individual, I'm proposing a way to find a reasonably good answer to the following question, "Do most people have more than one browser installed?"
Why a good answer/stat is so important to web app developers?
If I knew that about 80% of consumers have more than one browser installed I could probably make my app function best for one modern browser instead of covering all the bases... (too costly)... Up to this point, there's no good answer to this question, web search to no avail... so, here's my attempt,
http://www.knowledgenotebook.com:8600/knDEMO/yourBrowser.cfm
If you think an accurate answer to this question would be valuable to millions of web app developers please show your support.
I'm not sure the article answered its own question, but you obviously tried. How about a poll to ask which browser people use and why, and what they would like improved or added as features?
Also ask which home page and email service we like and why. This might encourage some useful changes.
My votes in brief - Chrome (Faster, simple)
Yahoo home (broad coverage, fairly easy format, hate the "highest rated" default on comments, needs some basic editing to eliminate hate-junk and irrelevant comments)
Yahoo e-mail (unlimited storage, like the classic format, has all the features I want, simple, large message capacity, has reasonably priced paid no-advertising option)
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Browser War: What Is It Good For?
Posted by: Richard Adhikari April 15, 2011 05:00 AMIn the past month or so, we’ve been inundated with announcements by browser makers of the latest versions of their products. Google, Microsoft, the Mozilla Foundation and Opera have all unveiled their latest and greatest browsers. Most of these companies unveiled full versions of their products after having them in beta for a while, but Microsoft pipped them all when it announced the preview of Internet Explorer 10 was available for download at its Mix event in Las Vegas Tuesday. That was just less than a month after the official rollout of Internet Explorer 9.
Why a good answer/stat is so important to web app developers?
If I knew that about 80% of consumers have more than one browser installed I could probably make my app function best for one modern browser instead of covering all the bases... (too costly)... Up to this point, there's no good answer to this question, web search to no avail... so, here's my attempt,
http://www.knowledgenotebook.com:8600/knDEMO/yourBrowser.cfm
If you think an accurate answer to this question would be valuable to millions of web app developers please show your support.
Thank you.
Also ask which home page and email service we like and why. This might encourage some useful changes.
My votes in brief - Chrome (Faster, simple)
Yahoo home (broad coverage, fairly easy format, hate the "highest rated" default on comments, needs some basic editing to eliminate hate-junk and irrelevant comments)
Yahoo e-mail (unlimited storage, like the classic format, has all the features I want, simple, large message capacity, has reasonably priced paid no-advertising option)
Thanks for the article, nice editing format.