Romanian browser usage trends 2010
Following the success of my last year study about browser usage in Romania i decided to repeat the study this year, around the same time (June – middle of the year). The methodology is the same , i took browser data from trafic.ro for a few sites (the most visited in Romania) and made an [...]
Google Chrome in Internet Explorer!
Most modern web browsers support HTML5, a standard that allows web sites to have features that previously only desktop applications had. Also most modern web applications use heavy javascript code to create the functionality of the site. Unfortunately Internet Explorer isn’t supporting HTML5 yet. And developers can’t ignore this, because IE is used by a [...]
Romanian browser usage trends
I’ve recently made a study about the browsers preferred by romanians. I don’t claim this study to be 100% accurate but it can be useful in some situations. The methodology was simple. I took the browser data for a few of the largest romanian sites listed in Trafic.ro (a web statistics system which provides browser [...]
Upgrade your browser!
Often i found myself wondering about why people use some antique and insecure software. For example Internet Explorer 6. This browser was launched back in 2001 and many many people still use it. Now when Internet Explorer 8 is about to be launched. In fact if you look in the statistics of any high trafic [...]
Internet Explorer 8 Release Candidate 1 released
Microsoft released Internet Explorer 8 RC1. You can find it here. The final launch is probably in the first half of this year. The question is how many people will make the switch, because i’m horrified by the large number of people still using Internet Explorer 6 years after Internet Explorer 7 has been released.
Default browser in Windows. What is it for?
I don’t know why Microsoft invented the concept called default browser if they aren’t using it anyway. Let’s make this clear. My default browser is Firefox. Almost any application knows this and it is used by default to open html files and web addresses. But not Microsoft applications. For example the bloatware called Live Messenger [...]
