Not dead, but smells funny: ie6 is on the way out
Just saw the visits stats on some of the sites I manage. Good news for the web developers, Internet explorer 7 is finally more used than the standard unfriendly internet explorer 6.
According to google analytics, this month, they are more visitors with internet explorer 7 than internet explorer 6.
Firefox is between 20 and 25%, safari around 5% and Internet explorer 6 and 7 being 50% each of the rest.
Less that 40% of the users are still using a browser that makes the live of the web developers miserable, is open to various worms and attacks here and there and is plain buggy, but that's on it's way down. By the end of 2009, I hope we'll finally be able to drop the support of IE6 and focus on the standards. this will be a nice day.
While we are at numbers:
- around 40% of users have a 1024 pixels width screen,
- around 5% have a 800px width one (eee+nokia tablets ?)
- around 40% have 1280px width (either 1020 or 800 height)
- the remaining 15% have even bigger screens
It doesn't say what's the size of the browser window, I'd guess than on the big screen, you don't open your browser full screen, but that's a guess.
