Over the last few years Internet Explorer’s dominance in the browser market has been in steady decline. Today we are spoilt for choice in what we use to browse the web. With the slick Safari, mobile Opera, lightning-fast Chrome or ever-expandable Firefox, there is a browser out there for just about everyone.
Today the web statistics site StatCounter is reporting that Firefox 3.5 has become the single most popular browser with 21.49% of the market share. All is not lost for Microsoft however. If you categorize by browser type, all flavours of IE are still pulling in 55% of the global market and Firefox is still on catchup with 32%, but it appears that more and more users are seeing that IE is not the only game in town.
http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser_version-ww-monthly-200811-200912
This demonstrates the reason why, when we code for the web, we always make sure your site works with as many browsers as possible as you never know which will be top dog next.
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