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Yes definitely. Outside the fickle world of consumer internet usage, tech media and devices/appliances (basically leaving businesses at all levels), it's #1 and

Yes definitely. Outside the fickle world of consumer internet usage, tech media and devices/appliances (basically leaving businesses at all levels), it's #1 and shows no sign of slowing down. 99.5% of our web hits are IE7-11 (financial sector). The other 0.5% is our dev team's Firefox instances.

StavrosK 12y ago
Oh wow, that's huge. That's too bad. Then again, I guess you only have to design for one browser.
- allegory 12y ago
  I'm fine with it myself. We support IE9+ which isn't particularly painful (IE7 and before was). There was some interest in iOS devices around the iPad 2 era but that wore off when people couldn't use them for a lot of things. We still aim to be 100% cross browser with some functional limitations. The killer features for us are actually ActiveX and ClickOnce. The former allows us to do magical things like ripping documents from a drum scanner through our back end straight into S3 without deploying desktop software. The latter allows us to deploy transparent integrations with desktop applications i.e we can click a link in the web app and kick off a quoting engine on the desktop and broker to and from our web back end. We've been doing this before even Firefox and Chrome were on the scene! It's all rather wonderful.
r00fus 12y ago
Would that be in part due to Citrix? I know of several cases where friends in that sector are forced to use Citrix and the only approved browser to access intranet sites in that setup is IE...
- allegory 12y ago
  We have a couple of clients using Citrix. It's on the way out though as to be honest it's inflexible, knackers client performance and is of dubious value these days.
drstewart 12y ago
>it's #1 and shows no sign of slowing down. I don't know if I would agree with that. http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser-ww-yearly-2010-2013 http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser-ww-yearly-2010-2013
- allegory 12y ago
  Outside the fickle world of consumer internet usage, tech media and devices/appliances I think I was pretty clear and statcounter pretty much ONLY tracks the above.

StavrosK 12y ago

Oh wow, that's huge. That's too bad. Then again, I guess you only have to design for one browser.

allegory 12y ago
I'm fine with it myself. We support IE9+ which isn't particularly painful (IE7 and before was). There was some interest in iOS devices around the iPad 2 era but that wore off when people couldn't use them for a lot of things. We still aim to be 100% cross browser with some functional limitations. The killer features for us are actually ActiveX and ClickOnce. The former allows us to do magical things like ripping documents from a drum scanner through our back end straight into S3 without deploying desktop software. The latter allows us to deploy transparent integrations with desktop applications i.e we can click a link in the web app and kick off a quoting engine on the desktop and broker to and from our web back end. We've been doing this before even Firefox and Chrome were on the scene! It's all rather wonderful.

r00fus 12y ago

Would that be in part due to Citrix? I know of several cases where friends in that sector are forced to use Citrix and the only approved browser to access intranet sites in that setup is IE...

allegory 12y ago
We have a couple of clients using Citrix. It's on the way out though as to be honest it's inflexible, knackers client performance and is of dubious value these days.

drstewart 12y ago

>it's #1 and shows no sign of slowing down. I don't know if I would agree with that. http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser-ww-yearly-2010-2013 http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser-ww-yearly-2010-2013

allegory 12y ago
Outside the fickle world of consumer internet usage, tech media and devices/appliances I think I was pretty clear and statcounter pretty much ONLY tracks the above.