OneStat.com today reported “that Microsoft’s Internet Explorer has a total global usage share of 93.9 percent. Microsoft’s Internet Explorer still dominates the global browser market. Microsoft’s IE 6 is currently the leading browser on the web. Microsoft’s IE 6 global usage has increased with 1.2 percent from 68.1 percent to 69.3 percent since July 2003.
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first post! woo hoo… just for fun : )
dang you first posters! second post.
Uh, okay, so a very small percentage of visitors to “sites that are using one of OneStat.com’s services” are running Safari. Is that supposed to be interesting? What particular OneStat.com services are we talking about?
some websites i have visited are still not safari friendly. but i think its a small price to pay for the speed and all the great functions of safari we so much enjoyed..
Since browsers can masquerade as other browsers, OneStat’s figures are bunk.
Safari is trash.
jobz, there is no privilege frame of reference. there is no need to condemn it if you don like it.
jobz, there is no privilege frame of reference. there is no need to condemn it if you don like it.
too bad about the ms ie percentage.. i design websites and i spend about 1 hr making the design and about 3 more trying to make it work with internet exploiter. too bad.
I’ve given up on IE for my private sites… stuff ’em.
I have a website showing my photography and the TV commercials I worked on.
I get about 1000 hits a month, from all over the world, and 32% are from computers running Safari as the browser.
DV
For the life of me I can’t figure out why people use IE. Of the 5 or 6 different browsers I’ve used I’d consider it to be at the bottom. But then again, I can’t figure out why people use PC’s either.
jump…
you’re kidding right? default browser?.. ring any bells?
I haven’t opened IE since the day Safari came out.
IE doesn’t even live on any of my machines anymore.
What great site does not support Safari.
OR…. put another way…. User Visits with Apple’s Safari Brower increase almost 50% in 5 Months!
In what appears to be a significant trend, OneStat announced today that in just the past 5 months, hits by Apple’s Safari browser had increased almost 50%.
Speaking for Apple, Mr. Jonis Glick commented that this trend is a reflection of a general increase in Mac users as more people and businesses abandon the unstable and cantankerous Windows platforms.
“The Mac’s operating system is based upon the long proven, stable and secure UNIX operating system” said Mr. Glick. “The Mac’s ease of use, stability and lower overall cost of ownership has always been the norm. Now that people and businesses have discovered that the ease of data sharing and integration with other, less capable operating systems, Apple’s user base is skyrocketing. This is just one more indication” according to Mr. Glick.
MicroSoft refused to comment upon Apple’s phenominal growth rate. Company spokesman Albert Allioucious Ankner replied, “We don’t have to answer any questions. We are MicroSoft. Now get out of the building or I’ll call security.”
But Glick7, it doesn’t have voice recording capabilities.
Baukunst:
Lots, unfortunately, and I have had exactly zero luck persuading any of them to have a look at their code. Some that come to mind:
<http://linssenyachts.com/gb/default.htm> menuing does not work
<http://tvlistings.zap2it.com/> just barely works in Safari, slick in IE (try both)
<http://zumtobelstaffusa.com/> make sure you are not redirected to some other ZSLI site. Menuing does not work
Lots more if you want ’em. BTW, just because *you* might not find these sites “great” does not affect my rating.
Mike
“jump…
you’re kidding right? default browser?.. ring any bells?”
What does that have to do with anything? It is featureless, lack luster interface, has poor cookie management, etc, etc. While there are times I’m forced to use it, again my question is why would the majority of people use this when there are such superior alternatives? I know why (it is good enough for most), just a rhetorical question.
Jump, just like most Windows users don’t know that Office and Windows are different products, they think Internet Explorer is the only web browser, Outlook is the only email client, and that USB devices only work with Windows 2000 and above. In short, most Windows users don’t have a clue that there are alternatives to Microsoft for anything.
JUMP you are judging people by your own naturally inquisitive nature to modify and improve your experience.
Most people have as much curiosity about their browser as your dog does about how dog food gets in a can. In other words, next to nothing.
I’m a tweak by nature, so I read and experiment, and settle on an involvement with my software that I am comfortable with. Most people do not bother going beyond mastering it’s easiest capabilities and haveing it function predictably.
I moved two people (techno-phobes, one a man and one a woman) from OS 9 to OS X recently.. and there are MANY who have never even heard of OS X.
Both of them had never deleted the mail from their DELETED mail folders. They thought it was redundant.. ” I already DELETED IT!!!” I only discovered it when I started moving them from Outlook Express to MAIL. I noticed it was taking a LONG time. They both had 10,000 (no joke) emails in their deleted folders.
Clueless, hopeless, useless, dickless, brainless, sacks of monkey sh*t.
And they hate their computers.. constantly whining, having fights with it, they devote 90% of their brainpower to ‘proving’ why the computer is wrong, inefficient, evil, spawn of the devil. Because it’s very presence mocks them because they can’t or won’t master all the whizzy things that you can do.
They are totally lost. They don’t know what the desktop is, or the finder, or where their documents are, or ANYTHING.
When they look at the screen they see the controls to an alien starship.
Unintelligeable, incomprehensible, impossible.
And we forget how long it took us to become facile with the things.. so we zoom around tossing off jargon.
But most HONESTLY do not want to put the time in to learn how to use even a Macintosh.. or program a VCR, or know how to use more than 2 buttons on their microwave.
I only help these people now, if they have a good attitude.. when they start hissing and spitting with anger I walk away.
DV
ROTFLMAO… this describes most people I know to a tee.
And they hate their computers.. constantly whining, having fights with it, they devote 90% of their brainpower to ‘proving’ why the computer is wrong, inefficient, evil, spawn of the devil. Because it’s very presence mocks them because they can’t or won’t master all the whizzy things that you can do.
Just use what you like and stop ramming your browser opinions down everyones throat, I wont even bother adding which one I use cause its not important to your lives!
Now stop whining please.
I still use IE. why? well, I still regularly use a beige G3 from Dec 1998 when I had to redeem all my $1200 worth of Citicard rebate dollars because Jobs ended the program. The beige G3 can run 10.1.5 very well, much more stable than OS9.. I’ve tried it with Xpostfacto for 10.2 and 10.3 but have had some problems, so I’ve stayed at 10.1.5. And Safari doesn’t run on 10.1.5.
As for the others, I’ve tried Camino, Mozilla, and iCab, and each of them seems to have a problem with macsurfer.com. And that’s a problem.
By the way, I’m waiting for the Powerbook G5, but I may change my mind once I see the performance/cost for the new machines arriving at WWDC. Hey, did you see that its a 7-10 wait for G5s at the Apple Store?
Safari’s mostly fine for me. Cookie handling is one of the main improvements I’d appreciate. OmniWeb 5 is still buggy and slower than Safari. Firefox feels awkward. Shiira looks interesting.
I’m not yet convinced, like everyone who’s making the lemming-like assumption seems to be, that Apple’s next major PowerBook architecture will be G5-based.
[Clueless, hopeless, useless, dickless, brainless, sacks of monkey sh*t.]
And Outlook Express, was yacked up by a dog.