[gameprogrammer] Re: DirectX9 running in Internet Explorer

As my day job I am the head coder in a company that makes web based
software for school districts, everything ranging from purchase
orders, work orders, budget management, vacation requests, warehouse,
and more so I keep up to date on all the browser issues etc.

In my line of work, it is exactly like you guys are saying, the
popularity of IE is dropping, while the popularity of Firefox and now
Safari (for mac) is rising.  In part this has to do with MS's
seemingly global policy to not adhere to standards which is really
dumb especialy when they aren't cross platform.  It really makes them
a specialized niche.  They've gotten away with it thusfar but they are
getting "fat and lazy" and smaller more efficient browsers are coming
out that are faster, easier and better in many ways so their pie slice
is shrinking.

Just goes to show evil doesn't pay i guess (hehehe) but just wanted to
affirm what you guys are saying, that IE really isnt all that's out
there anymore (and IE for macintosh is buggy as hell...and NS on any
platform is pretty much buggy as hell as far as i've seen).


On 8/9/05, Bob Pendleton <bob@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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 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 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!
> 
>                 Bob Pendleton
> 
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