WebKit became number 1 in the browser engines rating

Unnoticed, that time came when the development of web standards ceased to define Trident, the Internet Explorer engine, which has been the de facto standard for more than 15 years. According to Statcounter statistics for February 2012 , Chrome + Safari's share is 36.61% of the market, while IE's share is only 35.75%. The difference (0.86%) does not go beyond the bounds of statistical error, but just look at the rate of increase in Chrome's popularity to understand that by the fall or - as a last resort - by December 21 of this year, Chrome will become the # 1 browser according to worldwide statistics, I remind you, it can be very different from the regional.




For example , China is still dominated by IE - more than 70%, but even there Chrome shook this position in 2011 the most powerful, for a static browser market like China, jerk from 3.5% to 11%, while Firefox grew from 3.3% total, up to 4%. In Russia, IE on the contrary has long been herding the back, Chrome in the first place, and the share of Opera is almost equal to the share of Firefox.
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Looks like we have a new idol

It is impossible not to notice that such a large and rapidly growing popularity is already beginning to scare some. In the W3C consortium, there is talk of an era of new IE 6.0, in terms of the influence of the dominant browser on the development of the Web as a whole. Only IE can now take Chrome or more precisely Webkit.

The king is dead!
Long live Chorol? ..



Ps Looking ahead, I want to prevent speculation that the share of "alternative" (already irrelevant nickname) browsers has long been more than IE. But if we imagine the web as a joint stock company, then IE until the first quarter of 2012 was still the largest shareholder.