IE9 I'm afraid of you
So the first developer version of Internet Explorer 9 appeared. Let's leave aside new items like CSS3, HTML5, SVG: we all know that this is cool and therefore we will not discuss it. The browser is clearly faster, more beautiful, and generally better than previous versions, and I'm not going to argue about this. I will say even this: the ninth version of IE (even despite my dislike for “donkey”) I had been waiting for a long time. I waited, however, with fear.
I think that any person who is related to layout will understand me: the release of a new IE does not mean that the Internet will become better. Of course, this is an achievement, a giant leap forward (choose any laudable phrase from the articles on IE9 and paste it here). But let's estimate how the browser market changes. According to various data, Internet Explorer now occupies 35-45% of the market (15-20% - IE8, 15-20% - IE7, 10% - IE6). There are three versions of the same browser!
Firefox, Opera, Chrome and Safari live in different versions and, unlike Internet Explorer, the number of older versions is negligible. The update system does its dirty work: sooner or later you will agree with the proposed update and switch to a newer version (or you will not notice at all how this update happened).
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C Internet Explorer is becoming more complicated: users often disable updates, use pirated versions of the OS, or for some reason themselves “sit” on older browsers. Because of this, fresh versions of IE do not appear at all (for this reason there are three of them now). Of course, it would be better to update IE using the update system built into it (and not in the OS), but something suggests that this will not happen.
What will happen next? It seems to me that in a year the alignment will not change. At best, there will be three versions of IE: 7, 8, and 9. At worst, the sixth will not die and continue to live.
What does it threaten? We, gentlemen, the developers, still can not ignore the old Internet Explorer-s and will be forced to write different code for different browsers. We will continue to scold IE and spit aside if not the sixth, then the seventh version ...
Damn it! IE9, I'm afraid of you!
I think that any person who is related to layout will understand me: the release of a new IE does not mean that the Internet will become better. Of course, this is an achievement, a giant leap forward (choose any laudable phrase from the articles on IE9 and paste it here). But let's estimate how the browser market changes. According to various data, Internet Explorer now occupies 35-45% of the market (15-20% - IE8, 15-20% - IE7, 10% - IE6). There are three versions of the same browser!
Firefox, Opera, Chrome and Safari live in different versions and, unlike Internet Explorer, the number of older versions is negligible. The update system does its dirty work: sooner or later you will agree with the proposed update and switch to a newer version (or you will not notice at all how this update happened).
')
C Internet Explorer is becoming more complicated: users often disable updates, use pirated versions of the OS, or for some reason themselves “sit” on older browsers. Because of this, fresh versions of IE do not appear at all (for this reason there are three of them now). Of course, it would be better to update IE using the update system built into it (and not in the OS), but something suggests that this will not happen.
What will happen next? It seems to me that in a year the alignment will not change. At best, there will be three versions of IE: 7, 8, and 9. At worst, the sixth will not die and continue to live.
What does it threaten? We, gentlemen, the developers, still can not ignore the old Internet Explorer-s and will be forced to write different code for different browsers. We will continue to scold IE and spit aside if not the sixth, then the seventh version ...
Damn it! IE9, I'm afraid of you!
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/87869/
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