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Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
So…is it official now that Firefox has surpassed Internet Explorer as the most dominant web browser? By my count, that’s about 47% Firefox, 40% IE (IE6, IE7, IE8), 10% WebKit (Chrome & Safari), and 2% Opera.
To be fair, these logs are primarily from W3C’s site and probably reflect the large amount of web developers who consult their code dictionary via Firefox or WebKit.
Interesting points: IE6 is STILL more dominant than IE8 (13% to 10%), though IE7 leads (barely) with 15%. Google Chrome, thanks undoubtedly to its prominent push on the Google home page, is actually the most dominant WebKit browser. Safari’s 3.3% seems surprisingly low to me.
Of course, none of this really matters for smaller sites; target audience counts more. I just threw together a small site for a local street hockey league (gldhc.com) and spent half of my time correcting for IE6 because the local school system still suffers through an IE6 addiction. Painful.
