By bloid
via css.dzone.com
Published: Jan 31 2008 / 13:48
In a follow-up to this question I've begun pondering what the most-relevant browsers of 2009 will be. I tend to determine relevance by the question "Is this browser cost beneficial to us supporting it" being answered by a significant number of developers and corporations.
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BigFisch replied ago:
The author of this story really has no idea about any of these browsers timelines. E.g ie7 will start getting more popular than ie6. No shit, Microsoft is forcing all ie6 users to update to ie7. He also doesn't "predict" that ie8 will be out even though there is a milestone to release is this year.
rick replied ago:
>> The author of this story really has no idea about any of these browsers timelines.
BigFisch, I have to say that this statement doesn't fly for me. John is the creator of jQuery and works full-time on next-gen Firefox development. You'd be hard-pressed to find someone more knowledgeable. Just my $0.02.
Rick
antych replied ago:
I think John has some clue considering his background...
worldofnic replied ago:
Er, phones and non-PC-based browsers completely ignored? Bloody hell. HSPA-based handsets etc. are going to be big. OK, so Nokia use WebKit (like Safari/Konqueror/Epiphany 2.22+) and Opera is popular, but I haven't a clue what other manufacturers use.
topcataj replied ago:
OK, the difference in market share between Safari and Opera isn't that big. And Currently Opera deffinately ranks above IE5.5. Even Opera Mini would rank above IE5.5 IMHO.
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