Resources - Friday, April 4, 2008 15:09 - 0 Comments

Browsers and Resolutions

A quick look at the Global Web Stats for March 2008 shows a very interesting change in trends across the Internet. Figures for browsers have always been extremely skewed towards Internet Explorer (IE), which is to be expected as it is the default browser for Microsoft Windows. IE6 remains king (even with its poor standards compliance and plethora of bugs) as users slowly upgrade to the superior IE7. Mozilla Firefox, my favourite browser, has now climbed to hold almost 28% of the market, which is an incredible achievement for a stand-alone browser. Safari, Apple’s own browser is now available on the PC too. Also, Opera is a highly rated, secure and light browser that can be used on any platform. With more choice in browsers than ever before we can only hope that more IE6 users update to the free Internet Explorer 7 or switch over to use Firefox, Opera, Safari or Camino.

The good news just keeps getting better too! With the majority of PCs now shipping with higher resolution flat screen monitors, the days of the majority of site visitors viewing your website on a 15″ CRT monitor at 800×600 resolution are drawing to a close. Even the Beeb has upgraded its website to 1024×768 resolution!