[gameprogrammer] Re: DirectX9 running in Internet Explorer

I thought I would add some information as well. This link will show you some 
decent stats and someone's, possibly objective opinion, but I would error on 
the side that these figures can be way off their current cyclical path. When 
Vista has been distributed, and MAC users continue to migrate, and Open 
Source OSs rage on...it's hard to say what going to happen: 
http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2005/04/firefox_vs_ie_i.html
 Matt

 On 8/9/05, Roger D Vargas <luo_hei@xxxxxxxx> wrote: 
> 
> 
> 
> Bob Pendleton wrote:
> > On Tue, 2005-08-09 at 10:29 +0300, Szasz Pal wrote:
> >
> >>Btw, what would be the point in making a game to run in Internet 
> Explorer?
> >>- You will loose all linux/mac/amiga/etc users
> >>- You will loose all non IE (eg. firefox) users (and since IE share is
> >>below 75% now, I think this is a big issue.
> >
> >
> > I didn't believe that statistic, so I checked on my own web sites. On
> > gameprogrammer.com <http://gameprogrammer.com> the ratio of mozilla 
> (firefox shows up in web logs as
> > a version of mozilla) to IE has been shifting pretty quickly. A year ago
> > it was close to 1/3 that is, one mozilla user for every 3 IE users. By
> > June and July it had shifted to 2/3. So far in August it is running
> > nearly 11/13. Now, gameprogrammer.com <http://gameprogrammer.com> tends 
> to be skew toward very
> > technical users, people who are much more likely to change their browser
> > than the general public. But, I also know that 2 years ago the
> > mozilla/IE ratio was closer to 1/20.
> >
> > It does look like an IE only solution is no longer viable for technical
> > users. Very interesting indeed!
> I can confirm that, according to my blog stats more than 50% of my
> visitor uses Mozilla/Firefox variants and only a 28% uses IE. In fact,
> in the first weeks I didnt received any visit with IE. Another point
> often stated by Opera creators is that this browser identifies itself as
> IE by default, so, maybe some IE visits could be really Opera users.
> 
> --
> Roger D. Vargas
> http://dsgp.blogspot.com | Linux, programación, juegos
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