Apparently, it explains a lot about nothing. I grabbed it from here btw if you were wondering. WTF is HTML5 (Infographic)
WTF Is HTML 5 and Why We Should All Care
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Apparently, it explains a lot about nothing. I grabbed it from here btw if you were wondering. WTF is HTML5 (Infographic)
Except that IE has been losing market share. Wait for the first big Facebook app with HTML5, or some other big website with HTML5 that IE doesn't support.
I honestly see HTML5 as the biggest game changer in the browser wars in the last I don't know how many years.
While this is true, it's going to take a long time before it's the new industry standard. I mean, we can't even get people to stop using IE6, and that's 9 years old
IE may be losing marketshare but 70% of my main site's visitors still use it. Maybe it's just the niche I'm in, but it's still huge. Thank God it seems IE6 is finally dying out.
HTML5 is the industry standard for the next, at least, 5 years when all the new browsers will support it 100%.
Let's keep to write good XHTML 1.1 Strict and begin to study new features of HTML5.
P.S.: I have stopped to optimiize and hack my code for IE6 since january 1st. IE6 is finally under 5% worldwide and it's going slowly to die at the end of the year.
For us marketers that 5% who still use IE6 isn't worth anything, commercially speaking.
that's because the minimum OS requirement for anything higher is Windows XP.
people using Windows 2000 cant upgrade past IE6
Um, actually its because people who got XP never went and did windows update on their machine, you'd be hard pressed to find any machines running windows 2000 pro (which wouldn't be running on most end user's machines) especially since corporate users would no longer have support for it, so obviously they upgraded to XP which came with IE6 and as a company policy don't update anything within the system. Or they're that % of XP users that pirated XP but still can't figure out the full activation crack.
Internet Explorer 8 has been a "critical update" for a while now, all one would need to do os run express windows update and viola they'd have IE8. So just goes to show how many people aren't updating despite all the security holes and such announced for nearly 9 years. Check your access stats I guarantee a vast majority of your IE6 users are also XP users.
PS: Windows 2000 Pro came with Internet Explorer 5.5, in the same environment that would not have been likely upgraded either except with an upgrade to XP.
Most of my IE6 users are Win98 users and geo-located in Africa and South America.
