Internet Explorer Use Slips Below 55%

rfc1394 writes with this snippet from an Infoworld report: "Internet Explorer's market share continues to drop like a rock. Net Applications published its numbers for May, and Internet Explorer's total share declined yet again, from 55.11 percent in April to 54.27 percent in May, a drop of [0.84 percent] in one month. Contrast that with Google's Chrome, which rose from 11.94 percent in April to 12.52 percent in May, an increase of [0.58 percent]. In the past year, IE's share of browser usage has dipped from 60.32 percent to 54.27 percent. How long before IE usage drops below 50%?'"

Comments

Re:Excellent!

[elrous0]

with just one feature: render standard compliant HTML7 pages with 100% accuracy.

Fuck that noise. I happen to like the add-ons feature for Firefox, and I also like the idea that you can add Flash support to browsers and a lot of other mods. You stick with strict standards compliance all you want. But the first time I hit a website that says "Sorry, you can't view this video/play this game/use this utility" because some anal-retentive autistic nerd has decided that my browser will ONLY support some standard that some W3C assholes approved in a committee meeting--that's the moment that I uninstall that browser and go back to Firefox (or Chrome, or IE, or whatever).

I won't put up with Steve Jobs telling me what I can and can't install (that's right, fuck you Steve, I use flash), so why would I put up with some browser that won't let me use add-ons?