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Net Changing, So Are Browsers
Tags: Wired has an article about the changing landscape in the browser world as more businesses make the Internets a focal point in their day to day operations.
Already, IE has seen its U.S. market share on Windows computers drop to 90 percent from 97 percent two years ago, according to tracking by WebSideStory. Firefox’s share has steadily increased to 9 percent, with Opera’s negligible despite its innovations. WebSideStory analyst Geoff Johnston said Firefox must continue to improve just to maintain its share. Because IE automatically ships with Windows, he said, users satisfied with IE7 may not find enough reasons to download and install Firefox when they buy a new computer.
But honestly, things will never really change. A majority of users don’t realize how bad IE is/has become. Worse still, they don’t even know other browsers exist. Firefox’s pentration has slowed; though still continues to increase, but it remains to be seen how Vista’s imminent release will factor in.
The more I think though, is that really a problem? As long as a steady 10-20% use a different browser, web developers can not target their pages to any one browser – to me that is all that matters. I may get lambasted for this, but a Firefox dominated web would be just as bad as the IE dominated web from a few years ago.
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