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Browsers Fighting to Keep up with the Web
An anonymous reader writes "With the continued evolution of the internet and more tools being developed or migrated online browsers are fighting to keep up. Wired has a quick look at the current status of the browser war and what different browsers are doing to try to stay ahead. From the article: '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.'"
what the fu...!!!!!! Screw you. You Bastard! The vast majority of web developers are not working on huge enterprise applications and so for us, IE6, firefox, netscape, safari and others can do everything that is needed. And with adequate css support I can get a site up and running PERFECTLY in all those browsers except IE! To get even the layout to work in IE will take an extra 20 minutes to 2 days. Don't knock Firefox until you try taking a layout from photoshop to finished page in firefox in under 15 minutes!!! Impossible in IE unless its friggine exported slices and tabled to hell.