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Is IE Usage Share Collapsing?
je ne sais quoi writes "Net Applications normally releases its statistics for browser and operating system usage share on the first of every month. This month, however, the data has not shown up — only a cryptic message stating they are reviewing the data for inexplicable statistical variations and that it will be available soon. Larry Dignan at ZDNet has a blog post that might explain what is happening: Statcounter has released some data that shows a precipitous drop in IE browser use in North America, to the benefit of Firefox, Safari, and Chrome. At the end of May, StatCounter shows IE usage share (for versions 6, 7, and 8 combined) at around 64%; at the beginning of June it is now about 56% — an astounding 8% drop in one month. We should keep in mind the difficulties in estimating browser usage share: this could very well be a change in how browsers report themselves, or some other statistical anomaly. So it will probably be healthy to remain skeptical until trend this is confirmed by other organizations. Have any of you seen drops in IE usage share for Web-sites you administer?"
More interestingly, you can really see that the new key markets strategy the Spread Firefox campaign has kicked off is really paying off.
Blearf. Blearf, I say.
No problem, Noone reads the summary.
Who is this Noone fellow?
And some people will never be educated. They have to actually die to rid the world of their ignorance.
Couldn't it just be that all the geeks are running firefox/opera/chrome and everyone else is outside in the nice weather?
Did it loose 73% of its core developer?
I dunno, but what I'm interested in is what they did with the other 27% of him.
There is no -1 Disagree mod. Slashdot.org/faq defines mod options. USE IT.
Peter Noone, formerly of the band Herman's Hermits, gets blamed for everything. Apparently gives a shit.
It's better to vote for what you want and not get it than to vote for what you don't want and get it.
- E. Debs
Obviously, they tighted the other 27%.
But that's sexist to assume it's a him.
I'm interested with what they did with the other 27% of her.
Or, since we don't know the state of the core developer, perhaps we should be interested in what they did with the other 13.5% of him and the other 13.5% of her.
Or something. It's a little late in the day for me to be recalling Schroedinger.
"Trolls they were, but filled with the evil will of their master: a fell race..." -- J.R.R. Tolkien on Olog-hai
I think he'll be OK. There are a lot of stupid people out there...
There's a summary now?
I was making do with the first eight characters of the headlines.
So, in response to "Is IE Us", I'll have to say no. No it isn't.
Blearf. Blearf, I say.
You must mean Peter Noone of Herman's Hermits. "I'm MSIE the 8th I am. MSIE the 8th I am, I am. I got bested by the browser next door. We've been tryin' 7 times before. And everyone was an MSIE. We wouldn't pass an AcidTest, no ma'am. I'm the User Agent MSIE, MSIE the 8th I am, I am. MSIE the 8th I am."
Who is this Noone fellow?
I wish I had mod points. The parent's post is pretty well on topic. My first reaction to the grandparent's post was that "Noone" was an intentional typo, since it was replying to a post about a typo. Now I'm not so sure.
OK, now I'm replying to a post about a typo that was in another post about a typo. I hope my post doesn't have any typos...
you read the headlines? I just read the tags and try to guess what headline would have caused them.
Obama is a twitter sock puppet
Or maybe NetApps just came up with a creative way to earn more money from ads by delaying the release and having people come back every day for one week to check if the data is already there...
Well, why not. It's ok. But let's not misinterpret that.
Linux PC: $400 Monthly Internet fee: $50 You finally get a lead story published on /. and it has a typo: Priceless
Who are you? The new #2 Who is #1? You are #617565. I am not a number, I am a free man! Muhahaha.
I wish I had mod points. The parent's post is pretty well on topic. My first reaction to the grandparent's post was that "Noone" was an intentional typo, since it was replying to a post about a typo. Now I'm not so sure.
OK, now I'm replying to a post about a typo that was in another post about a typo. I hope my post doesn't have any typos...
I counted 6 including the subject.
You read the tags? I just blindly comment without even reading the post I'm replying to.
then how the hell did you know I read the tags? you must be a good guesser
Obama is a twitter sock puppet
As soon as Microsoft's check clears the bank.
Cousin of Anonymous Cowardon.
...for my blog. 100% of all hits are Chrome, but that may be because I am the only person who reads it. I'm still doing analysis before I release a full report on the statistics....check my blog for more details.
Sorry about the mess.
I don't know. THIRD BASE!!!
Something tells me you're into something good.
"But this one goes to 11!"
No, ocularDeathRay, not exactly. I'm not a good guesser at all.
Though it may at times seem like I'm responding to other people's posts-- like where you mention that I knew he read the tags-- I assure you that all of my posts are just random rants without any attention paid to the posts I'm responding to. If the response seems appropriate, it's just a wild coincidence. And yes, Linux is awesome.
See! I just said "Linux is awesome" even though that's completely irrelevant to what we're talking about. Why would I even say that until I had no idea what we were talking about? I bet you feel silly now.
In fairness, Slashdot displays things badly in Firefox 3.0. And Safari. And Opera. And Chrome. And probably Mosaic if you gave it a spin.
Please, just give me back the old site.
Information theory is life. The rest is just the KL divergence.
You read the web page? I just drink a fifth of Jack, bang on the keyboard, and let the moderators sort it out.
You comment? I use a slashdot posting form.
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a.k.a. checkbox humour
After logging in slashdot still does not take you back to the page you were on. It's been that way for 20 years.
But that's sexist to assume it's a him.
I'm interested with what they did with the other 27% of her.
Well, he was a he, before he had that 27% removed.
He was also quite well endowed, apparently.
Internet Explorer: 0.37%
Firefox: 13.45%
Safari: 4.23%
Chrome: 6.97%
Lynx: 22.43%
Self-created web browser: 23.12%
No browser - reading HTML directly: 14.22%
No browser - interpreting modem signals directly: 15.21%
There's no difference. None of them come while you are awake.
Zing!
"Trolls they were, but filled with the evil will of their master: a fell race..." -- J.R.R. Tolkien on Olog-hai
I appreciate your sentiment, but you come off sounding like a raving loon.
You must be new here.
I always thought that was the name of the guy who built Data. Wasn't it? Dr. Noone Young Sung?
Doctor Noonien Soong
Doctor who?
Something tells me you're into something good.
You're revealing both your age and your bad taste in music in one sentence.
I, on the other hand, post anonymously to avoid the same fate...
You host what??
If you ignore the five screens of Javascript at the top of each page, Slashdot is actually more usable in Mosaic than it is in other browsers.
"They redundantly repeated themselves over and over again incessantly without end ad infinitum" -- ibid.
You're putting monkeys out of work!
ivan
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I'm MSIE the 8th I am. MSIE the 8th I am, I am. I got bested by the browser next door. We've been tryin' 7 times before. And everyone was an MSIE. We wouldn't pass an AcidTest, no ma'am. I'm the User Agent MSIE, MSIE the 8th I am, I am. MSIE the 8th I am.
CowboyNeal Reads Slashdot Stories To Me (and also does my math): 40.33%
Car parts... mac users... yeah, I can understand the lack of Safari.
No Doctor Who accidently left the positronic plans behind for Sung to steal.
i thought once I was found, but it was only a dream.
"I love a bad economy, it forces people to be less stupid."
Oh, I don't know. I think it just forces them to be stupid in new and different ways.
This sig is false.
I think he'll be OK. There are a lot of stupid people out there...
There is no shortage of them here either ;-)
Guns don't kill people; Physics kills people! - John Lithgow as Dick Solomon on Third Rock From The Sun
These numbers are faked. If your stats were accurate exactly 11.7% would be showing Emacs/w3m. Of course, you cold just be a jealous vi user who has no web browser or Rogue client built in to your text editor.
-- $G
Wow. I don't want memorabilia THAT badly.
Ol' Rick Dawson had a farm EIEIO
No browser - use wget to mail the page back: 0.00001%
You forgot my favourite you insensitive clod!