Every time I go to Servusamanu to tweak something it gets logged like any other visit. Since I’m a unrepetent Opera user, my usage statistics get skewed. It turns out that most websites don’t get 80% Opera usage, which is a damn shame since it’s a great browser.
What’s more interesting is the Netscape values. The browser wars between Netscape and IE defined early internet age. We’re still dealing with all the random code tweaks that got put in to one up the other browser now, and as the graph shows, Netscape hasn’t had more than 10% market share in the last decade. Opera actually has more market share than netscape, and yet I can hardly see Opera propelling large waves of development in the big browsers. Oh how times have changed.
As a web developer, browsers only make life more difficult, each requires its own special handling. The sooner we can bump IE6 off the list, the sooner we’ll finally be able to write standards compliant code without the page becoming completely demolished. I look forward to double checking the graph in a few years.
