Microsoft is on fire this week, a non-biased browsers chart

Author: Cedric Dugas

Cedric Dugas is an experienced front-end developer and founder of Position: Absolute, based in Montreal, Canada. When he is not doing CSS and jquery (does it ever happen?), he likes to read on web usability and play trumpet. Why don't you follow him on twitter.

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8 Comments to “Microsoft is on fire this week, a non-biased browsers chart”

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  Rob June 18, 2009 at 3:40 pm

  They claim a “tie” for web standards support but then only mention CSS2.1 while failing to mention they don’t support XHTML served as XHTML at all, or SVG and are 11 years behind in DOM support among other things.
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  Cedric Dugas June 18, 2009 at 3:55 pm

  @Rob yea I don’t think they are lying once, they just turn around everything to make them look good.
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  Benedict Aluan June 18, 2009 at 8:41 pm

  No comment.
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  Mike June 19, 2009 at 12:49 am

  Pfft. canvas.
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  bwt June 19, 2009 at 12:43 pm

  My company just removed IE from the list of supported browsers for our most heavily used internal app. FU, MS.
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  Chris Pratt June 25, 2009 at 11:33 am

  Microsoft simply convolutes all the data to swing it in their favor.

  In Security, for example, IE does have more notices, toolbars, preferences, popup boxes, etc. related to security, which is all they’re saying in that field. What they don’t mention is that Firefox and Chrome actually natively DISALLOWS malware to run, whereas IE natively ALLOWS malware to run (ActiveX). All the security measures in IE are there to add a layer of protection over their poorly designed codebase.

  Reliability is based on what’s available to you once there’s ALREADY a problem (the tab/browser has crashed). It says nothing about how often that event happens. Firefox and Chrome are more stable overall than IE.

  And performance! What a joke. You don’t need stop motion video to see the difference. I’d say that Firefox 3.0 and IE8 are virtually tied in page load time, but Firefox 3.5 RC renders a page near instantly. Chrome is also noticeably faster than IE. Note that: *noticeably*. And, Safari 4.0, which didn’t make it to the list blows everyone else out of the water. In fact, in speed test after speed test since IE8’s release it has *consistently* underperformed compared to all competitors. Yeah, some tie there.
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  sebastian July 6, 2009 at 9:09 am

  the only real advantage i see in this chart is “Manageability”. this is clearly a win for microsoft.

  concerning the “Reliability”… ie8 just crashed today
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