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Jimmy, recently I had to explain that to a lots of people in my entourage.
I wrote an entire explanation on medium[^].
It contains what I told you, plus some additional background, and in a more polished way.
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Thanks for the information.
The report of my death was an exaggeration - Mark Twain
Simply Elegant Designs JimmyRopes Designs
I'm on-line therefore I am.
JimmyRopes
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Bitcoin is absolutely useless for lighting cigars.
I may not last forever but the mess I leave behind certainly will.
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Anyone noticed in movies no one seems to use Windows the most popular OS, no one use Google the most popular search engine, no one uses internet explorer the most popular browser. Fiction indeed
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I guess it should have been the most popular desktop web browser.
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Even there I suspect you may be wrong: Chrome is doing very nicely as a desktop browser, FireFox is also popular - I cannot think of anyone I know who is using IE by choice (as opposed to because it is company policy). I have it installed - but only for website testing, never for "proper" browsing.
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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I use it by choice. Works fine. Most 'normal' people will not be bothered to install a new web browser. Most people wouldn't even know what it meant.
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair.
Those who seek perfection will only find imperfection
nils illegitimus carborundum
me, me, me
me, in pictures
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I too use it by choice (IE11) as it seems to be a lot faster than Firefox or Chrome on my PC.
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I'm using IE11 and Chrome, atleast onee of them are always working.
I never use Firefox, it's more unstable then my wife.
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Jörgen Andersson wrote: I never use Firefox, it's more unstable then my wife.
 That's just about signature material right there. 
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It's a very good thing that my wife is totally uninterested in the Codeproject, or I would experience instability at the level of FOOF[^].
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I take it you're a calm and patient man then. Bloody hell, FOOF make organic peroxides look like the kind of things you'd give kids to play with, in comparison. It even manages to make anhydrous Perchloric Acid look rather pedestrian.
No thanks! (to the FOOF)
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enhzflep wrote: I take it you're a calm and patient man then
I used to be, nowadays I'm more of nervous wreck. It's just my cynicism that keeps me up.
You know what they say, can't live with them, cant live without them. 
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OriginalGriff wrote: W3Schools http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp[^] and they have no axe to grind!
No they don't have an ax to grind but they are gathering statistics about people who are visiting W3C websites. These are technical people and not representative of users in general.
The report of my death was an exaggeration - Mark Twain
Simply Elegant Designs JimmyRopes Designs
I'm on-line therefore I am.
JimmyRopes
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Very true - but they are one of the few sites I am aware of that publish "live" data on month by month trends.
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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OriginalGriff wrote: they are one of the few sites I am aware of that publish "live" data on month by month trends.
Yes they do.
You need to be careful when comparing the data from W3C to other data because they measure unique visitors and others don't bother to do so. The exception is Net Applications, they try to get unique data also.
What I mean by unique is that they don't count as 20 if you visit 20 times from the same IP address, they count it as one. Others would count it as 20 for that type of browser so comparisons are difficult.
The report of my death was an exaggeration - Mark Twain
Simply Elegant Designs JimmyRopes Designs
I'm on-line therefore I am.
JimmyRopes
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It's always a problem. I hate it when the news says "Blah blah is up 168% on last year! That's terrible!" as they did last week. Without some kind of base number it's worthless 100 -> 168 is trivial, 100,000 -> 168,000 is significant!
Or Laboratoire elephanting Garnier: 78% of women agreed! (sample size: 8) Bah! Humbug!
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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I just don't trust Wiki that much: I can edit it, you can edit it, Dalek Dave has been known to edit it... It's useful, but you need some backup - which is why I gave the W3Schools link as well.
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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The only stats that matter is the stats from the website you maintain!
That said I find these statistics[^] interesting.
It's from Akamai.
Note how IE drops during the weekends. but only with five percent. Twenty percent still use it in the weekends.
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And that 5% is mirrored in the Opera Safari / Android figures: corporate policy dictates IE...
[edit]I have opera on the brain...[/edit]
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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Safari/Android is what people have on their phones/tablets, I believe it's the people that don't care for a computer at home any more.
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Yep - and the drop in IE is matched by the pick-up in those two.
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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But that doesn't really need to be a corporate policy then.
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