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Firefox Web Browser Reaches 25% Market Share

by Anthony on 18 December, 2006

Good news, as w3counter shows that Firefox has reached 25% market share.
Breakdown:

IE6 – 59%
Firefox 1.5 – 17%
IE7 – 6%
Firefox 2.0 – 6%
Firefox 1.0 – 2%

So combined versions of Firefox come to 25%, and combined IE6 and IE7 come to 65%. Not bad!

I find it interesting that IE6 vs IE7 has such a large difference still, given that Microsoft is pushing IE7 out to customers via Windows XP automatic updates. I would have expected an overnight explosion of adoption, something like 50% of IE users having IE7 by now. I guess not!

Wonder why that is – too many people with pirated XP copies (You have to run the ‘genuine’ tool to install IE7), or just people not updating windows?

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Ugg Boots getting Great Results

November 1, 2006

One of the sites owned by my employer (Tailored Consulting) is called Brand Boots.com. Today, Brendon tells me that BrandBoots is ranked #5 in Yahoo for the phrase “ugg boots” – and thats great news. BrandBoots was a venture by Brendon and Mel to sell Ugg Boots (Ugh boots, Ugg boots, Ug Boots – however [...]

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RSS feeds done right – XML + XSLT

October 27, 2006

This is a blog, and its got an RSS feed. It feels like RSS feeds are becoming more and more common every day. Part of this is due to the growing popularity of blogs, and partly because web users are becoming a little more savvy. Once upon a time there was a web user. We’ll [...]

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Internet Explorer 7 Released

October 19, 2006

Well, thats just dandy. Internet Explorer 7 was released for download today, from the sound of things. They haven’t pushed it out to all Windows XP machines via windows update yet, but I can’t imagine thats very far away. I did hear it would happen on November 1, but that wasn’t an official source, so [...]

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PHP and Timezones

May 4, 2006

Its always a hassle, isn’t it. You code up your webapp and store timestamps from events – then later you have to do the conversion in your head because the server your site sits on is on the other side of the world. Michael Phipps touches on the subject, mentioning an issue with attempting local [...]

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Some useful links

October 22, 2005

Blogs: Sitepoint Blogs – great resource MattCutts.com – one of google’s engineers speaks! Articles: Sitepoint – How to sell web accessibility Interesting Stats: * There are 8.6 million registered disabled people in the UK, totaling 14% of the population (source: DRC) * One in 12 men, and one in 200 women, has some form of [...]

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PHP Resources

August 15, 2005

here’s a few more resources: SP – Coding Standards Good article on Coding Standards – basically, how to write code that is easy to add to, maintain, and debug. Always good! PHP Code Beautifier Reformats PHP code based on your preferences, to make things easier to read etc. Security Guide for PHP Excellent guide to [...]

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Javascript Resources

August 15, 2005

Here are a few Javascript resources for you! Unobtrusive Javascript Unobtrusive Javascript – basically, you don’t put javascript in your html code. Instead, you use an external .js file, and use event-handlers to trigger the code where neccessary. Good one to take on-board! Preview Your Links Use unobtrusive javascript to put an icon beside your [...]

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