Posts Tagged ‘Browsers’

Browser stats

4th February
2010
written by Hamish

Have found from several sources with varied summarized stats on browsers and resolution that overall IE is dominate as a collective although as individual browsers (6 – 8)  holds less market share than that of  firefox.

It also shows that IE is dropping in ussage over the years – down 30% 2004 – 2010. Where on the rise are the primary competition Firefox, Chrome and Safari respectively.

Where i work  our stats show that the market share of IE is around 15% per version from 6 – 8, firefox is around 30% and the rest falls into safari, chrome and so on…

If i was to pick and choose the stats id want to show someone for designing a site – they would be the ones below;

Browser Statistics Month by Month

2010 IE8 IE7 IE6 Firefox Chrome Safari Opera
January 14.3% 11.7% 10.2% 46.3% 10.8% 3.7% 2.2%

Display Resolution

The current trend is that most computers are using a screen size of 1024×768 pixels or more:

Date Higher 1024×768 800×600 640×480 Unknown
January 2010 76% 20% 1% 0% 3%

OS Platform Statistics

Windows XP is the most popular operating system. The Windows family counts for about 90%:

2010 Win7 Vista Win2003 WinXP W2000 Linux Mac
January 11.3% 15.4% 1.4% 59.4% 0.6% 4.6% 6.8%

thanks to w3Schools

http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_display.asp

Also – more info > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_web_browsers

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Browser testing

4th February
2010
written by Hamish

If your in the web game – you’ll know that it isn’t an easy task to get sites to render in 98% of the browsers out there. Before you even start on a site – you need to work out who your target market is in terms of browsers and cut off the rest – aka – “degrade gracefully”. The term degrade gracefully means that they need to work in (are navigatable, clickable) those “lower” browsers although maybe not look as pretty in. W3 seem to have a fairly good record of the most current stats – you can see them here.

Something’s to help you through the browser blues are the following;

Online multiple screen rendering
One bit of software I use is Browser Cam.  This online application allows you to test in multiple operating systems in multiple browsers – you need a live page to test this on.

This is well worth the money spent and you can see for yourself for free for 30days.

Desktop testing
As you may or may not know after you update your browser you no longer have the previous version – while this is often good as hopefully they have knocked out the bugs it often removes the only testing vessel you had of that browser…

To over come that there are what as known as stand alone browsers – thanks to TredoSoft who have put together a lovely little package of standalone IE versions from 3.0 – 6.0 you can have hours of “fun” trying to get your sites to work. The also have a version of IE 7.0 standalone although this seems to be a little buggy sometimes (you need to do a restart to get it working as it doesn’t like when its brothers and sisters are running).

Check out trendsofts downloads of IE 3.0 – 6.0 here and IE 7.0 standalone here

Alretnatively i have zipped the pair up and put in one file here – NB 25Mb

I will put some hints and ways around hacking your CSS in IE in the near future – in the mean time – have a read here

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