Internet Explorer has been losing steam in the past few years, while newcomer Chrome has surged. IE's worldwide browser market share on desktops dropped from During the same period, Google-owned Chrome's share rose from Ending support for the older versions of Internet Explorer is a way to prod people to newer versions of Microsoft's operating system that support IE 11, especially Windows 10, which debuted in late July.
That said, Microsoft must be hoping that people will try its new Edge browser, which is available only on Windows Edge is considered a more streamlined and modern browser than Internet Explorer, which is still bundled with Windows 10 mostly for compatibility reasons to support plug-ins, extensions and other third-party software. Internet Explorer 11 has a Internet Explorer's use has been falling steadily.
But online data tracking is a tricky science, with various methods returning different results. Some trackers record browser information based on clicks to a network of client Web sites, which is the main method StatCounter uses. Others use toolbars, ISP data or even surveys to collect the information. Though the trend is clear across the board, other data trackers show that Internet Explorer 8 is still firmly on top of the browser world. Print Comment.
Did Apple save Dr. Additional security enhancements have been delivered to the SmartScreen Filter, now capable of issuing better warnings when dodgy downloads are detected. Another part of making IE9 browsing a more trusted experience is related to increasing reliability. By isolating tabs to their own processes, IE9 is safe from a single or more tabs crashing, and will continue to run, immediately recovering the sites that went down.
The original implementation checked for the presence of standard HTML5 features:. As new features come out and older browsers become increasingly antiquated, our cuts the mustard baseline will change. For instance, new JavaScript syntax such as ES6 arrow functions would mean this inline CTM check fails to even parse in legacy browsers — not even safely executing and failing the CTM check — so may have unexpected side-effects such as breaking other third-party JavaScript e.
Google Analytics. This particular implementation uses media queries that are only supported in at least IE 9, iOS 7 and Android 4. Techniques such as cuts-the-mustard help to rationalize browsers into C-grade and A-grade browsers, according to the Graded Browser Support model by Yahoo! In this case, the user would get the core experience, since the CTM check would have failed. But we could have given them the full experience. Well, in the move towards componentization, we could have a feature-specific fallback or error boundary , rather than a page-level fallback.
We do this every day in our web development. Think of pulling in a web font; different browsers have different levels of font support. What do we do? We provide a few font file variations and let the browser decide which to download:.
We have a similar fallback with HTML5 video. The HTML spec has carefully evolved over the years to provide a basic fallback mechanism for all browsers, whilst allowing features and optimisations for the modern browsers that understand them. We could apply a similar principle to our JavaScript code. Imagine a Feature like so, where the foo method contains some complex JS:.
Before calling foo , we check if the Feature is supported in this browser by calling its browserSupported method. However, it is ironically caveated with the fact that it is not universally supported. But it does make it much more difficult to predict and to test your site as a whole, and there may be unintended side-effects if, say, the styling of one component affects the layout of another.
IE8 was once a cutting edge browser. No, seriously. The same could be said for Chrome and Firefox today. Stop and think about that for a moment. The point is, there will always be some divide between what browsers developers build for, and what browsers people are using. We should stop scoffing at that and start investing in robust, inclusive engineering solutions.
We tend not to think about screen reader numbers. The same principle applies to people using older browsers. That would be missing the point. But be mindful that all sorts of people use all sorts of browsers for all sorts of reasons, and that there are some solid engineering approaches we can take to make the web accessible for everyone.
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