IE6 Falling down, falling down…

I am really pissed off that IE6 is still in existence because this has created a lot of problems for my development team including myself. We have to spend far more hours than necessary creating stylesheets and testing them on this browser.

I really hope IE6 retires and everytime I learn that the market share for IE6 decrease I treat that as a big win for development team like ours. This is the case with the latest market share reports where IE6 has lost 2.4 percentage points and is considered the biggest loss since December of 2007, yeah that’s good news.

Firefox on the other hand has continued to increase their market share gaining 0.8 percentage points which puts them on 23.3 percent market share. All of Internet Explorer has lost 1.1 percentage points bringing them down to 66.6 percentage points in August. While the numbers seem very low, it should be noted that slowly Firefox has made tremendous progress as they have accumulated 8.6 percentage points for the last 12 months.

Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 8 however has gained 2.7 percentage points in August which is the only Microsoft browser that has done goo since IE7 itself has also lost 1.9 points. But if you think of it IE8 is new and the only direction it should go is up.

Google Chrome is so far behind on fourth place but it looks like they are occupying the 3rd spot in less than a year, overtaking Safari.

I think the browser wars would still be between Firefox and Internet Explorer (hopefully not IE6) in the years to come.

Image from Mozilla.