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OneStat.com on Wednesday reported that the open-source project's browsers have a total global usage share of 11.51 percent. The total usage share of Mozilla increased 2.82 percent since April 2005. Microsoft's Internet Explorer still dominates the global browser market with a global usage share of 85.45 percent. [Ed: These are the kinds of erosion we saw beginning in the mid 1990's, only it was Microsoft chipping away at other's market share. - tadelstein]
I don't want to wait that long for non-MSIE support on the majority of websites. However, most web developers who have picked a point at which they will explicitly support a browser have said "ten percent". Firefox is already over that.
Ideally, I'd like to see Konqueror/Safari and Opera taking big bites out of the market as well. With a bit of luck, developers will get the hint and stop developing primarily for one browser, then patching that until it works acceptably for another browser or two.
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Ideally, I'd like to see Konqueror/Safari and Opera taking big bites out of the market as well. With a bit of luck, developers will get the hint and stop developing primarily for one browser, then patching that until it works acceptably for another browser or two.