Chrome 18 is most popular browser in the world

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How the hell did Chrome go through so many revisions so quickly??? :wtf:
 
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elvis_presley said:
IE as a whole is actually slowly gaining marketshare ( http://arstechnica.com/business/new...surges-as-version-9-wins-hearts-and-minds.ars ), this title is quoting per-version stats. Nothing wrong with the article, just a misleading title. Should be "Chrome 18 most popular browser VERSION in the world".
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Thankfully, you are wrong, IE is in fact showing tremendous decline in usage. The article you quote, is just from one of the many sources of evaluating the browser share. For instance I could show you the results from statcounter

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To find the most accurate measure, it is best to take a average of all companies that measure browser usage, and when you do you would see that IE has dropped from 40% to 37% between December and March alone
Source: Wikipedia
 
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Nicko said:
Source: Wikipedia
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I prefer my source - arstechnica, thank you very much. You should read the article I posted, quite interesting. In fact arstechnica singles out Statcounter and explains why its measurement methodology is wrong.

In case you didn't know, arstechnica is one of, if not the most, respected technical site on the internet.

I don't care which browser wins, I don't have a dog in the race, but it's good to know the facts if you're in the IT game.
 
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Well done to the webkit project; combined total of 38.3% -- may we forever be blessed with standards' compliance ;)
 
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grav80 said:
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How the hell did Chrome go through so many revisions so quickly??? :wtf:
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MartyMarts said:
I also wondered the same thing.
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they have a 6 week release cycle.

elvis_presley said:
I prefer my source - arstechnica, thank you very much. You should read the article I posted, quite interesting. In fact arstechnica singles out Statcounter and explains why its measurement methodology is wrong.

In case you didn't know, arstechnica is one of, if not the most, respected technical site on the internet.

I don't care which browser wins, I don't have a dog in the race, but it's good to know the facts if you're in the IT game.
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+1

I'm also an avid Ars Technica reader, however, I think the IE stats rising were just a temporary spike caused by MS releasing the latest version via Windows Update.
 
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I'm also an avid Ars Technica reader, however, I think the IE stats rising were just a temporary spike caused by MS releasing the latest version via Windows Update.
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It was the 3rd month running they showed (modest) gains. Firefox is the loser these days, everyone's nibbling their marketshare. Basically they've stagnated (not surprsing after Google stole half their developers for Chrome), and MS is putting in a big effort with IE, and it's paying off. And a good thing too - Webkit needs a rival to race against so they both keep pushing everything forward.

The big disappointement is W3C. They need to ratify HTML5 specs YESTERDAY and stop the guesswork, as browsers are starting to do their own things to implement new tech. It's IE6 all over again.
 
Pingdom???
Wow, now we're quoting no name players in the industry.

Netapplications has

Microsoft Internet Explorer 8.0 25.40%
Microsoft Internet Explorer 9.0 15.17%
Chrome 17.0 14.73%

as the top 3
 
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elvis_presley said:
I prefer my source - arstechnica, thank you very much. You should read the article I posted, quite interesting. In fact arstechnica singles out Statcounter and explains why its measurement methodology is wrong.

In case you didn't know, arstechnica is one of, if not the most, respected technical site on the internet.

I don't care which browser wins, I don't have a dog in the race, but it's good to know the facts if you're in the IT game.
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Good to see an Ars reader on MyBB :)
A little faith in SA's tech community restored
 
JStrike said:
Pingdom???
Wow, now we're quoting no name players in the industry.

Netapplications has

Microsoft Internet Explorer 8.0 25.40%
Microsoft Internet Explorer 9.0 15.17%
Chrome 17.0 14.73%

as the top 3
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Rule 1 of stats for fanboys: Find one that agrees with your opinion :)
 
elvis_presley said:
It was the 3rd month running they showed (modest) gains. Firefox is the loser these days, everyone's nibbling their marketshare. Basically they've stagnated (not surprsing after Google stole half their developers for Chrome), and MS is putting in a big effort with IE, and it's paying off. And a good thing too - Webkit needs a rival to race against so they both keep pushing everything forward.

The big disappointement is W3C. They need to ratify HTML5 specs YESTERDAY and stop the guesswork, as browsers are starting to do their own things to implement new tech. It's IE6 all over again.
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Webkit is an true open source effort from multiple players and even though they jointly work on webkit, they compete with separate browsers who each enjoy different features and market share; how then can you compare that with Trident which is a single vendor closed source solution ?
 
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[)roi(];8129896 said:
Webkit is an true open source effort from multiple players; how can you compare that with Trident ?
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I don't get your point? Why can't you compare open and closed source products if they aim to do the same thing?
 
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