IIRC, those stats only come from visitors of the W3Schools website, and thus are highly swayed toward web designers who are using FF and away from IE.
On Feb 16, 2009, at 3:01 PM, Ryan Little @ Gusto wrote: > Hi all, > > I have been lurking for the last few days watching the eb and flo. I > am very impressed with some of the experts here that are giving up > their time to help. > > On that regards first let me say thank you very much for your time, my > first question is more of a interest I think. > > I have been web designing for many years and like others have said > what recession, I am busier now than ever > > I am working with graphic designer that makes being exact to the pixel > more important than ever. So I am dropping tables and going to CSS > for all my sites. > My question to all of you is with Browser Statistics: > > Month by Month 2009 http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp > IE7 25.7% > IE6 18.5% > IE8 0.6% > Fx 45.5% woot go fx! > and the rest so low as to not make a difference why program to below > IE 6? I am not even sure I want to program to ie 6 anymore with it > being so messed up and dropping in % I would love to just drop it. Is > there something I am missing as to why its important to create code to > handle those that are not in the majority or refuse to upgrade. I > still check Safari and Opera and even Chrome to make sure my sites are > not broken badly but really how important is it? > > Thanks again > > Ryan > ______________________________________________________________________ > css-discuss [[email protected]] > http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d > List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ > List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html > Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/ ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [[email protected]] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
