There are still companies out there that develop only for IE. The stats indicate that they are ignoring almost 3 out of every 10 customers.

In any normal business, the person who made the decision that resulted in such a rate would have been fired without severance pay.

How much more marketshare does IE have to lose in order for these buinesses to realise what they're doing to themselves?

The reason some companies still develop for IE is that their infrastructure is based on Microsoft servers/services (Exchange, IIS, etc). It is the path-of-least resistance, and generally cheaper in terms of cash and time-to-deployment.

I'm not say that it's the *best* choice, but it generally is the easiest to justisfy.

One thing to note about "IE Only" products (since I develop them myself)...

A lot of companies have very robust in-house products that only employees use. Employees that, by the way, either don't have security permissions to install any other browser or are simply told to use IE by their bosses. This allows companies to save TONS of money by not wasting time and $ on multi-browser support since IE comes with every Windows version.

Not to mention that these IE-only mandated installations are skewing the results; if there was any allowed choice, a large percentage of these PCs would be running non- IE browsers.

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vasic wrote:
There are still companies out there that develop only for IE. The stats indicate that they are ignoring almost 3 out of every 10 customers.

In any normal business, the person who made the decision that resulted in such a rate would have been fired without severance pay.

Great point, vasic.

Few things are more frustrating than using a Mac in an enterprise environment where IE rules, and Safari is usually no help all. So, for those of us in such a situation, Firefox is pretty much the only real choice we have. Not just because it has a myriad of free extensions either.

It doesn't matter that Safari renders a second or two faster, or that it passes the latest standards test. What matters is how much fussing I have to do to work with various sites, and Firefox so far, wins that contest and Safari fails.

Even at home I simply cannot use Safari because I just can't stand blinking flash ads and crap-vertising all over everything. I like all the extras I can add to my browser, none of which are available - for free - for Safari.

So as a half decent default browser Safari is OK, and will suffice until I download Firefox. I'm sure there are millions of people just like me who feel exactly the same way. So don't expect Safari to see huge gains any time soon.

It can block Flash and do much more, check it out:
http://hetima.com/safari/stand-e.html

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It can block Flash and do much more, check it out:
http://hetima.com/safari/stand-e.html

Like anything else, people want the ease of having that feature "built-in" to Safari instead of having to d/l and install some 3rd party helper app to do the same thing.

Considering that Safrai is forced upon Windows uses now as part of the QuickTime/iTunes version updates for Win OS, it is surprising that Safari's web browser share has not increased even more. But people's browser usage habits (they just go for that blue "e" and unwillingness to change/try something different is hard to change.

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Considering that Safrai is forced upon Windows uses now as part of the QuickTime/iTunes version updates for Win OS, it is surprising that Safari's web browser share has not increased even more. But people's browser usage habits (they just go for that blue "e" and unwillingness to change/try something different is hard to change.

You could deselect it in the updater, that way you won't feel like it is being "forced" upon you.

The rest of your post I agree with. Habits are very hard to change.

You and I and other more knowledgible computer users can, but "Joe and Joan Sixpack" out of habit, don't realize they can deselect it. I actaully like Safari on Windows but many don't.