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IE is not a major browser anymore http://gs.statcounter.com/ http://gs.statcounter.com/ Look at your Google Analytics, it's really not that important anymore.

sametmax 9y ago
In corporate env it is.
- foodstances 9y ago
  Either the computers in these mysterious corporate environments are exposed to the internet, in which case they'd be reflected in these public stats collected by them visiting public websites from IE, or they aren't, in which case they don't matter in the slightest because they're not going to visit webpages using WebAssembly.
  - dragonwriter 9y ago
    Or, as is absolutely the case, because of the aggressive blocking and monitoring policies and restrictive usage policies in place in the kind of enterprises where IE remains common, they are exposed to the public internet and use public webpages, but with usage patterns which leave them underrepresented on the kind of sites that use third-party stat counters. OTOH, for certain other public websites, they are very large numbers of users.
  - romaniv 9y ago
    IE can account for a fraction of total traffic, but it still can affect large percentage of users. The same person can use several devices (work, home, mobile) to browse the web at different times. I can't recount how many times I saw some page at work only to send myself the link to read it later. I'm not forced to use IE anywhere, but if I were, loosing that initial visit would also lower the number of visits from other browsers.
- subb 9y ago
  It's important because of internal websites stuck in the past. I doubt you'll ever need web assembly support for those.
  - aroman 9y ago
    Yeah, you could just run IE6 inside Chrome/Firefox via wasm :)
rz2k 9y ago
I would have agreed until looking at desktop browsers in the US[1] which would make Firefox not a major browser, too. Chrome 56.69% IE 12.69% Firefox 11.14% Safari 9.84% Edge 7.86% [1] http://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share/desktop/united-states-of-america#monthly-201610-201710 http://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share/desktop/unite...

sametmax 9y ago

In corporate env it is.

foodstances 9y ago
Either the computers in these mysterious corporate environments are exposed to the internet, in which case they'd be reflected in these public stats collected by them visiting public websites from IE, or they aren't, in which case they don't matter in the slightest because they're not going to visit webpages using WebAssembly.
- dragonwriter 9y ago
  Or, as is absolutely the case, because of the aggressive blocking and monitoring policies and restrictive usage policies in place in the kind of enterprises where IE remains common, they are exposed to the public internet and use public webpages, but with usage patterns which leave them underrepresented on the kind of sites that use third-party stat counters. OTOH, for certain other public websites, they are very large numbers of users.
- romaniv 9y ago
  IE can account for a fraction of total traffic, but it still can affect large percentage of users. The same person can use several devices (work, home, mobile) to browse the web at different times. I can't recount how many times I saw some page at work only to send myself the link to read it later. I'm not forced to use IE anywhere, but if I were, loosing that initial visit would also lower the number of visits from other browsers.
subb 9y ago
It's important because of internal websites stuck in the past. I doubt you'll ever need web assembly support for those.
- aroman 9y ago
  Yeah, you could just run IE6 inside Chrome/Firefox via wasm :)

rz2k 9y ago

I would have agreed until looking at desktop browsers in the US[1] which would make Firefox not a major browser, too. Chrome 56.69% IE 12.69% Firefox 11.14% Safari 9.84% Edge 7.86% [1] http://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share/desktop/united-states-of-america#monthly-201610-201710 http://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share/desktop/unite...