Comments on: Internet Explorer Extinct by 2013? 2009 Update

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 09:34:02 +0000

No firefox?

By: Anon

Anon — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 23:44:49 +0000

Because Internet Explorer is part of Windows it wont go extinct, for the non technical minded, they would just stick with Internet Explorer because it’s all they know. However I am hopeful that Internet Explorer does decline as soon as possible!

By: jaijaz

jaijaz — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 22:31:18 +0000

This is a ridiculous exercise. Of course site point users will be moving away from IE. The very next blog post, “What is a Web Browser? No One Knows!”, on the Site Point blogs proves that the above figures mean nothing. Obviously the average person who visits the Site Point site are in the “8%” who know what a browser is.

Our personal experience supports that blog. We don’t support IE6 with our CMS. We find, with at least 90% of our clients they have no idea what a browser is when we ask them what browser they are using.

For those bitching about IE6 etc. The big reason why 25% of the world still uses it is because they don’t know there is an alternate and/or their company won’t upgrade them. Microsoft has failed to provide a better operating system since XP. XP installs ie6. I don’t believe IE6 will disappear until people upgrade/downgrade from XP and have a new browser installed.

By: Tomek

Tomek — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 12:54:22 +0000

@Arlen and everyone else who replied to my comment. My point was missed. Here it is again: FF is the best thing to happen to the web dev community. Why would you take away from that? Its free and we control it, not Google, not Microsoft! This is your chance to “stick it to the man”.

By: RogueScripts

RogueScripts — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 02:42:37 +0000

Just goes to show, if you make a junky product like internet explorer, and much better products come out like FireFox and Chrome, you will lose your market share no matter how big it is.

By: Derrick Peavy

Derrick Peavy — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 02:36:39 +0000

Yes, seeing a similar trend on http://www.CollegeClassifieds.com – one year ago, IE was at 70%, now down to 58%. Varies a bit each month, but across all tools that I use (GA, internal DB reports, etc.,) IE continues to slip.

By: Ziller

Ziller — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 00:43:50 +0000

Any web developer who codes correctly, knows what a headache it is to get a site working in IE. Why each version of IE reads HTML to every other version is beyond me, and in my opinion the sonner IE goes the better.

People only use IE because they dont know of any alternate version. If they tried the likes of Safari, Firefox or even Chrome, I am sure they would not go back to IE.

By: Michael

Michael — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 00:37:18 +0000

Correction of my data… 21% is current IE6 usage. 14.5% was from W3C stats.

Also you can get interesting results by combining IE browsers less than IE7 in the category “bad browsers” and IE8 + all other browsers in the category “good browsers”

According to w3 stats the “good browsers” overtook the “bad browsers” in september 2008. and currently good browsers are at 63.60%

By: ShayneTilley

ShayneTilley — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 23:45:33 +0000

Thanks for all the comments and for sharing some of your own browser stats. Just with regards to FF – it’s over 50%, so the dominant browser. I didn’t include it as I wanted to focus more on the decline of IE. If you’re interested, I’m happy to share the FF growth stats.

Also on the scale, yes I should have included it, but just so you all know — it’s stats going back 5 years, only sitepoint.com traffic.

By: Michael

Michael — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 23:27:38 +0000

I work for a local government of a non capital city in Australia. Over the past 18 months the decline of IE6 usage has been linear however the estimation is that it will be extinct December 2010.

But personally I believe it won’t continue to be linear… it will drop to about 7% or so (from 14.5% unfortunately) and then slow right down. I think.