blowzy browsers
just reading http://paulirish.com/2011/browser-market-pollution-iex-is-the-new-ie6/
here’s the thing, in the REAL world (that is, people under 45, not trapped corporate bullshit networks) FF and Chrome actually account for ~70% already with a skew something like 40% FF and 35% webkit (chrome / safari). IE is under 25%. among younger people (under 25) IE isn’t even a factor, it’s ~3-5% and usually only used when they are on their mom’s computer.
in the mobile world, which is very soon to be the only relevant world as far as new development is concerned, there is no IE and from the look of it will never be.
when flash was at 85% market share in the late 1990s, fortune 500 companies were comfortable betting their interactive farms on it. IE loses about 2% market share per month with the under 45 crowd. that predictive math is pretty straight forward. IE 9 will help the slow to adopt have close-to-passable experiences, but still isn’t really relevant in the grand scheme of things. if IE market share were going to turn around, we’d be seeing that adoption vector already.
users ultimately will go with that the transport that the content they love goes with. the more apps and brands that take a hard stance on IE, the more users will. the web is as screwed up as it is in part because of this “we have to support everything” attitude, which is really a fallacy. end users almost never have only one browser installed and almost immediately understand what’s happening when they hit a site that won’t render for them. i discovered this summer that even my little mum has a self-acquired sense that “sometimes you have to open the site in firefox” which is fascinating to me.
