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Sunday, December 05, 2004

Browser Wars - Reloaded

If you're reading this then you're probably aware that Microsoft's stranglehold on the browser market is slipping. A survey from late November tells a dramatic story. Since May, it's total market share has fallen by 5%. That's pretty substantial in 6 months, especially considering that the fall has been taken up by Mozilla's Firefox, which people have to choose to download and install. It's not part of anyone's operating system.

It reinforces the need for testing of your website in multiple browsers and operating systems before it goes live. Whilst it was always a fallacy to only worry about one browser, now it's becoming statistically significant.

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