
This March 20, 2009 and yesterday, Microsoft released the latest version of its web browser Internet Explorer 8. For Web developers, when Microsoft launches new web browser which is a great joy but also great pain, because often the new version fixes all the annoying problems with the above, but creates a minefield entirely new to Developers have to choose our way through. You see, the Web browser Microsoft is by far the most popular of all Web browsers, about 80% of all Internet users use Internet Explorer, but only because a new version of the program does not mean that all those millions immediately update, in fact, very few of them. Microsoft last issued an updated version of its browser in 2006 and after more than two years ago still almost 30% of users of IE version 6. You might wonder why this problem, and technology always moves forward and that is very true tools that Web developers use to build websites. In the time since Internet Explorer 6 was released to the tools we use have improved dramatically, but it can be used if the majority of Internet users have the ability to see a site to build with them. There are several ways to create Web sites with the latest technology and still have to work with older browsers such as Internet Explorer 6, but this requires more work from a web developer. So when all those millions of users of Internet Explorer chose not to upgrade to version 7 in 2006 gave the programmer to head huge. Roll on two years and a new version of Internet Explorer, and the situation could soon be much better or much worse. You see, Internet Explorer 8 is an improvement over version 7 and a massive improvement from version 6, but it does not matter if many people do not upgrade. Indeed, if people do not update then makes the situation much more difficult to manage than in the past because this time we have three versions of Internet Explorer instead of two for design. What worries most Web developers of all this is that people who chose not to update your web browser in 2006 for some reason, it is also likely to decide not to return, while the proportion of IE6 and IE7 users and proceed to the proportion of users of IE8 will rise, will probably be several years before finally developers website can remember having to design websites for the old dragon that is Internet Explorer 6.
Why Internet Explorer 8 is another puzzle
Posted by admin on April 24th, 2010
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