freelance84 Posted October 14, 2010 Share Posted October 14, 2010 OK. Just got windows7 on a new laptop.... it has IE8. I get everything working ie6 ie7 ff chome... etc but then ie8 comes along. IE8 is knocking table cells out and other querky things. Is there anything i should be looking out for in particular? The annoying thing is when i hit the "compatibility view" button the whole site looks ok again! Seems to me that at the moment most of my time is just fixing my site to look ok on IE! You would have thought that with all the billions that MS has, they could employ some competent programmers Also, does anyone know of an up to date site which gives up to date information about all the web browswers? http://whichbrowserforme.org/... seems a little out dated. EG, it says IE6 still accounts for 20% of the browswers in use, where as w3 says it's actually around 5%. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zq29 Posted October 14, 2010 Share Posted October 14, 2010 You'll love to hear that IE9 is currently in Beta then Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex Posted October 14, 2010 Share Posted October 14, 2010 http://gs.statcounter.com/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam Posted October 14, 2010 Share Posted October 14, 2010 where as w3 says it's actually around 5%. You mean w3schools? You really have to consider how biased the results are for that website though. It makes sense that a website aimed at web developers would have less people using a browser web developers generally despise. Also whichbrowserforme.org when it mentions IE6 is just using the text from the bringdownie6.com website, which has been around for a while now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Philip Posted October 14, 2010 Share Posted October 14, 2010 http://gs.statcounter.com/ And Adobe's version (pulled from Omniture): https://netaverages.adobe.com/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
freelance84 Posted October 14, 2010 Author Share Posted October 14, 2010 You mean w3schools? You really have to consider how biased the results are for that website though. It makes sense that a website aimed at web developers would have less people using a browser web developers generally despise. The results from w3schools vary so dramatically to the site posted by http://gs.statcounter.com/ Which one is more likely to be hiding the truth? Also, how on earth are they getting those statistics? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam Posted October 14, 2010 Share Posted October 14, 2010 Neither "hide the truth". You have to consider the type of users that will be visiting the site, and which browsers they're likely to be using. w3schools will obviously attract web developers, who are more likely to have the latest browsers better equipped for development (Firefox, with add-ons at least). Stat counter can provide less biased results as it's used on a whole variety of websites, aimed at different users. Anybody could really visit a website using stat counter so there's no one type of user. To gain the statistics they just parse the user agent string. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
freelance84 Posted October 15, 2010 Author Share Posted October 15, 2010 ah i see, so you're saying that w3schools and statcounter's stats are based on the visitors visiting their site? http://www.w3counter.com/globalstats.php Found this site which asks at the bottom to "take part" so i'm assuming this may be a less bias set of results. Would be interesting though to see what the stats are on browsers visiting google Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chintansshah Posted October 15, 2010 Share Posted October 15, 2010 using http://www.easycounter.com/ you will get unique visit, browser visit, country visit many more... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
freelance84 Posted October 15, 2010 Author Share Posted October 15, 2010 My mistake, statcounter says it gets its results from 3million sites globally. I suppose that's pretty acurate. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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