Web browser usage stats for August 2011: Chrome still climbing

supersunbird said:
Pffft, uneducated posts like yours are the ones that need to be ignored. Its just a application for FSM sake, one that displays content stored on servers. I have tried different browsers and don't see much difference except their looks, no other functionallity interested me so I use IE8, why is that such a problem to you?
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Firstly, it was a joke!

Secondly, yes I didn't qualify it (see my first point), and yes browsers display content stored on Servers, but the way they interpret(display) that content is not consistent, particularly with IE 6, 7 and to a lesser degree 8. There are web standards that Microsoft just blatantly ignored because they had the majority of the browser share and felt they could do what they like. Because MS had the majority of the browser share the majority of websites a few year back were coded for IE, in a non-standards compliant manner, making it hard for web developers to design sites which look similar across different browsers and also stifling competition in the Enterprise (Enterprises wouldn't update their existing working web app/ intranet if it's working only so they can change to a better more complete browser, they view it as a waste of money, which is short-sited but that's a whole topic of conversation by it's self)

Thirdly, did I mention it was a joke?!? :whistle:

Fourthly, in the case of Internet Explorer it is not merely an application but a critical part of the OS, the main reason why MS don't want to give you IE 9 (which is markedly better than previous versions, yet still has it's MS idiosyncrasies) on Windows XP, then again that's probably a good thing.

Fifthly, It's lunchtime I need to get my lunch:D
 
Arthur said:
I don't see a huge increase in Chrome on the desktop. I suspect a goodly percentage of the numbers come from rapidly-growing mobile use, reflecting Android's current smartphone penetration. I don't have a religious view of the technology, btw. Total tech agnostic.
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There is no Chrome browser on Android:
http://techcrunch.com/2011/08/22/android-webkit-chromium/

And the USER_AGENT string on the default android browser doesn't pretend to be chrome either:
Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; U; Android 2.2; en-us; Nexus One Build/FRF91) AppleWebKit/533.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Mobile Safari/533.1
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SomeoneEls said:
Firstly, it was a joke!

Secondly, yes I didn't qualify it (see my first point), and yes browsers display content stored on Servers, but the way they interpret(display) that content is not consistent, particularly with IE 6, 7 and to a lesser degree 8. There are web standards that Microsoft just blatantly ignored because they had the majority of the browser share and felt they could do what they like. Because MS had the majority of the browser share the majority of websites a few year back were coded for IE, in a non-standards compliant manner, making it hard for web developers to design sites which look similar across different browsers and also stifling competition in the Enterprise (Enterprises wouldn't update their existing working web app/ intranet if it's working only so they can change to a better more complete browser, they view it as a waste of money, which is short-sited but that's a whole topic of conversation by it's self)

Thirdly, did I mention it was a joke?!? :whistle:

Fourthly, in the case of Internet Explorer it is not merely an application but a critical part of the OS, the main reason why MS don't want to give you IE 9 (which is markedly better than previous versions, yet still has it's MS idiosyncrasies) on Windows XP, then again that's probably a good thing.

Fifthly, It's lunchtime I need to get my lunch:D
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Error 404: Smiley, grinning or tongue face not found, joke could not be displayed :) :D :p
 
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