Dutch Survey Shows IE Web Share Below 90%

[flashfan]

From SlashDot [slashdot.org]

happycorp writes "We've seen a few too many Firefox articles by now, but it is gaining a real presence in the market: Onestat reports that IE's share is down to 88.9% marketshare, with the combined Mozilla browsers above 7%. While we saw this trend much earlier in particular communities such as w3schools this is the first time IE has dropped below 90% in a general survey. Also interesting, the w3schools page shows a steady parallel increase in both Linux and Mac OS global marketshare over the last 18 months."

[encyclo]

And here's a funny thing (got from the Register): check out the "photo provided by Microsoft" showing off the new MSN Search beta in this article [seattlepi.nwsource.com]. If you look closely, the photo clearly shows Firefox running on Windows XP. So, even Microsoft are running Firefox these days!

[flashfan]

From C¦Net [news.com.com]

As Firefox marks its 5 millionth download, a long-running survey puts IE below 90 percent for the first time.

[CritterNYC]

The full stats are available at OneStat's site [onestat.com]. From the article, we can do a bit of Math and learn that IE4 has fallen to 0.11%. We can also seperate things out by renderrer, which is far handier from a developer's prospective:

MSHTML (Internet Explorer - All): 88.90%
Gecko (Mozilla, Firefox, Netscape 6/7): 7.35%
Opera (Ummm... Opera - All): 1.33%
KHTML (Konqueror, Safari): 0.91%*
Netscape (Netscape 4/5): *

* Unfortunately, they don't seperate out Konqueror in the results nor do they even mention Netscape 4. There would be a VERY SMALL boost to the KHTML numbers by including Safari.

We could even go further and seperate out the IE rendering engines:

MSHTML-Modern (IE 5.5 & 6): 84.61%
Gecko (Mozilla, Firefox, Netscape 6/7): 7.35%
MSHTML-Legacy (IE 4 & 5**): 4.29%
Opera (Ummm... Opera - All): 1.33%
KHTML (Konqueror, Safari): 0.91%*
Netscape (Netscape 4/5): *

** There is some debate about whether IE5 would be "modern" or "legacy".

[Paul_B]

www.thecounter.com for Nov 2004 thus far:

Mon Nov 1 00:05:01 2004 - Tue Nov 23 15:55:03 2004 22.7 Days

1. MSIE 6.x ---- 58,674,717 (79%)
2. MSIE 5.x ----- 8,615,801 (12%)
3. Mozilla ------- 1,812,195 (2%)
4. Unknown ----- 1,317,512 (2%)
5. Netscape 5.x - 1,034,654 (1%)
6. Netscape 7.x --- 602,018 (1%)
7. Safari ---------- 553,390 (1%)
8. Opera x.x ------ 474,618 (1%)
9. Netscape comp. - 423,901 (1%)
10. MSIE 4.x ---- 163,521 (0%)
11. Netscape 4.x ---- 126,619 (0%)
12. Netscape 6.x ----- 42,189 (0%)
13. Konqueror ----- 33,277 (0%)
14. MSIE 3.x ----- 4,630 (0%)
15. Netscape 3.x ------ 3,378 (0%)
16. Netscape 2.x ------- 366 (0%)
17. Netscape 1.x -------- 25 (0%)