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"With over 40-thousand questions tagged "Internet Explorer", and dozens more asked every day, it has proven to be a great place to find reliable help." The ann

by dfar1 12y ago

"With over 40-thousand questions tagged "Internet Explorer", and dozens more asked every day, it has proven to be a great place to find reliable help." The announcement makes it seem that they are proud of how many questions are out there about IE issues.

brudgers 12y ago
Questions are the product of an engaged user base.
- hueving 12y ago
  Excessive questions are the product of a UX nightmare.
- shetter 12y ago
  More like engaged developers and large user base.
Renaud 12y ago
As of just now: * tag [internet-explorer]: 27,934 questions * tag [google-chrome]: 28,153 questions Since the number of questions is your metric for attributing shame, that surely imply that chrome is much worse than IE, especially considering the long legaccy and larger install base of IE vs Chrome... Or, I don't know, could it be possible that the number of questions reflects more than just how bad a piece of software is?
- andreasvc 12y ago
  Chrome has by far the larger install base. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_web_browsers http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_web_browsers
  - Renaud 12y ago
    Now it does, but there was a time, at least when SO came online, when IE had a much larger install base, and older, troublesome versions of IE were still fairly popular.
  - rgbrenner 12y ago
    for a little over 2 years, chrome has been more popular than IE SO is 6 years old
  - wfjackson 12y ago
    That's wrong. Statcounter measures usage , while Net Applications measures user share and IE has by far the larger install base.
- NicoJuicy 12y ago
  [internet-explorer] [internet-explorer-{version}] [google-chrome] [google-chrome-{version}] [google-chrome-extensions] (4,194 questions) [Chromium] (893 questions) + Chrome on Linux, Mac and Windows. Chrome also contains extensions, that would explain why there are a lot of more questions about "Chrome" + i think more tech-savaged people prefer Chrome to IE (because of dev tools), so SO wouldn't be a good reference for an objective market share view.
- unwind 12y ago
  A 0.8% difference in a measurement this vague is enough to claim something is "much worse" than something else?
- dfar1 12y ago
  Looks like some people took my comment very personal. Notice that not anywhere I mentioned other browsers, and whether having a lot of issues is a good or bad thing. It's just weird the way they made the announcement.
jonathansampson 12y ago
I actually am proud :) It's awesome that people are asking their questions, and even more awesome that people are getting really solid answers. The significance of the 40k-question reference is that no matter what you run into, it's likely the answer already exists on Stack Overflow.

by dfar1 12y ago

brudgers 12y ago

Questions are the product of an engaged user base.

hueving 12y ago
Excessive questions are the product of a UX nightmare.
shetter 12y ago
More like engaged developers and large user base.

Renaud 12y ago

As of just now: * tag [internet-explorer]: 27,934 questions * tag [google-chrome]: 28,153 questions Since the number of questions is your metric for attributing shame, that surely imply that chrome is much worse than IE, especially considering the long legaccy and larger install base of IE vs Chrome... Or, I don't know, could it be possible that the number of questions reflects more than just how bad a piece of software is?

andreasvc 12y ago
Chrome has by far the larger install base. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_web_browsers http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_web_browsers
- Renaud 12y ago
  Now it does, but there was a time, at least when SO came online, when IE had a much larger install base, and older, troublesome versions of IE were still fairly popular.
- rgbrenner 12y ago
  for a little over 2 years, chrome has been more popular than IE SO is 6 years old
- wfjackson 12y ago
  That's wrong. Statcounter measures usage , while Net Applications measures user share and IE has by far the larger install base.
NicoJuicy 12y ago
[internet-explorer] [internet-explorer-{version}] [google-chrome] [google-chrome-{version}] [google-chrome-extensions] (4,194 questions) [Chromium] (893 questions) + Chrome on Linux, Mac and Windows. Chrome also contains extensions, that would explain why there are a lot of more questions about "Chrome" + i think more tech-savaged people prefer Chrome to IE (because of dev tools), so SO wouldn't be a good reference for an objective market share view.
unwind 12y ago
A 0.8% difference in a measurement this vague is enough to claim something is "much worse" than something else?
dfar1 12y ago
Looks like some people took my comment very personal. Notice that not anywhere I mentioned other browsers, and whether having a lot of issues is a good or bad thing. It's just weird the way they made the announcement.

jonathansampson 12y ago

I actually am proud :) It's awesome that people are asking their questions, and even more awesome that people are getting really solid answers. The significance of the 40k-question reference is that no matter what you run into, it's likely the answer already exists on Stack Overflow.