Internet Explorer 11 Passes 9 And 10 Combined

MostComfortable said:
Android leads in marketshare but the type of marketshare needs to be taken into account.

The world is full of cheap low end Android devices that are owned by people that won't spend money on apps and don't really browse the internet. Most don't even have Gmail accounts. The majority of Android devices are really just replacing the dumb phone for most people.

High end Android devices are a niche. Samsung is the only company that can sell high end Android devices in any meaningful quantity and the iPhone outsells their annual flagship sales in a single quarter. Then there's tablets where there is an even bigger gap in performance and ecosystem. This explains why developers can't generate half the revenue from Android that they do on iOS, as well as Android's lower internet usage share. Even Google makes more ad revenue from iOS than from Android.

The distribution of hardware is at least as important as the operating system.
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That is interesting.

I didn't realize people were buying Android devices to be used as dumb phones.

I don't even think I've seen any really low end Android devices like you are mentioning. Is this primarily an international market thing, or are they present here in the U.S. as well?
 
hajalie24 said:
Internet explorer is the only browser I can use on my tablet because it's the only one that actually supports pinch to zoom properly, and it works flawlessly using the touchscreen or the trackpad. Chrome has an option to enable pinch to zoom now and it works alright, but it doesn't work with the trackpad.

It sucks that I have to use IE, not that there's much wrong with it, it's just the lack of add-ons mainly, if it was customizable I would have no complaints.
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That is surprising considering how well the Chrome browser works on Android with touch controls.

You'd think those capabilities would carry over across platforms.
 
Doesn't work with our web based applications, that were coded with IE 8-9 in mind...So 9 it is, and 9 it shall always be (Firefox, and Chrome for everything else).
 
Outamyhead said:
Doesn't work with our web based applications, that were coded with IE 8-9 in mind...So 9 it is, and 9 it shall always be (Firefox, and Chrome for everything else).
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I thought we learned this lesson back in the IE6 days with all the business web apps that refused to work on any other browser, keeping corporate drive images in the stone age.

Why aren't web apps developed to be standards compliant across browsers? Is there a good reason for this, or are the people developing business web apps just complete morons?
 
Zarathustra[H];1040810451 said:
I thought we learned this lesson back in the IE6 days with all the business web apps that refused to work on any other browser, keeping corporate drive images in the stone age.

Why aren't web apps developed to be standards compliant across browsers? Is there a good reason for this, or are the people developing business web apps just complete morons?
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Usually because the codebase is legacy. Updating a web app from IE6 to IE8/9 is much easier than updating an app from IE6 to a standards-compliant cross-browser app. Windows is firmly entrenched in the office desktop space so some version of IE can be relied upon for the clients who use the software. Tablets and mobile phones are mostly responsible for leading the push toward standards-compliant corporate web applications.
 
CEpeep said:
Usually because the codebase is legacy. Updating a web app from IE6 to IE8/9 is much easier than updating an app from IE6 to a standards-compliant cross-browser app. Windows is firmly entrenched in the office desktop space so some version of IE can be relied upon for the clients who use the software. Tablets and mobile phones are mostly responsible for leading the push toward standards-compliant corporate web applications.
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Understood, but there really ought to be a security driver here. As an example, lets look at the latest IE security flaw that won't be patched in older versions of IE. Now corporations have to have an older browser with a known security flaw on all their images opening themselves up to various vulnerabilities, in order to stay compatible with their web apps...

Seems like a rather significant business risk to me...
 
Modern IE, or less crappy IE. Either way IE is still 2 years behind Firefox and Chrome.
 
Zarathustra[H];1040810492 said:
Understood, but there really ought to be a security driver here. As an example, lets look at the latest IE security flaw that won't be patched in older versions of IE. Now corporations have to have an older browser with a known security flaw on all their images opening themselves up to various vulnerabilities, in order to stay compatible with their web apps...

Seems like a rather significant business risk to me...
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Do you expect firefox or chrome to patch older versions of their bowser? Microsoft does patch their older versions, that activeX flash bug was patched by microsoft for IE6 and up because they are business driven company not consumer driven.

Companies will sit on a version because upgrading breaks their in-house app.
 
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