Metrics

2005-01 UPDATE - Market Snapshots of the WEB

January 2005. The Firefox Web browser now commands 5 percent of the user base, and Internet Explorer (IE) is down to 90 percent.
-source: WebSideStory

COMMENT 2005-01. Developers are again faced with two significant rendering schemes to accommodate when building websites. After two years of relative stability designing for the known dysfunctions of Internet Explorer, now they welcome browsers, led by Firefox, that are effectively compliant with W3C standards. Evolution resumes as it becomes satisfying to build according to the promulgated standards of style and layout.

Sadly, IE sits astride the installed base with major, layout-killing aberrations, and no hope for change since Microsoft now declines to upgrade versions earlier than the XP operating system. One school of thought holds that this is deliberate "poison pill" obstruction, although to believe this one would have to think that Microsoft was a jealous and monopolistic company.

2002-11 UPDATE - Market Snapshots of the WEB

November 2002. Of Web users worldwide, 46% have their monitor screen resolution set at 1024x768 pixels, while 34% are at 800x600, 13% use 1280x1024, and only 1% are now at 640x480.
- source: OneStat.com

2002-09 UPDATE - Market Snapshots of the WEB

August 2002. Netscape's global usage share is now 3.4 percent, down from 13 percent at this time last year. Internet Explorer now has a global usage share of 96 percent.
-source: StatMarket

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