RFC: User Agent Headers for Browser Capabilities

June 23, 2011

One of the features of HTTP that is widely used, yet strangely a hack, is the User-Agent header. Several sites and servers use the agent to detect a browser’s capabilities. For example, a site may attempt to detect IE browsers to handle custom stylesheets or javascript. A more traditional approach as of late is detecting [...]

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Browser Market Share – May 2009

June 1, 2009

Using the monthly market share analysis by Net Applications, here is my monthly release of browser market share. Firefox: 22.40% (-0.08%) FF 3.0: 20.43% (+0.18%) Internet Explorer: 64.62% (-1.48%) IE 8.0: 6.84% (+2.19%) IE 7.0: 40.83% (-3.68%) IE 6.0: 16.94% (-0.58%) Safari: 8.21% (0.00%) Safari 4.x: 1.13% Safari 3.x: 7.08% (+0.24%) Chrome: 1.78% (+0.36%) Chrome [...]

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Browser Market Share – April 2009

May 1, 2009

Using the monthly market share analysis by Net Applications, here is my monthly release of browser market share. Firefox: 22.48% (+0.43%) FF 3.0: 20.25% (+0.59%) Internet Explorer: 66.10% (-0.72%) IE 8.0: 4.65% (+1.58%) IE 7.0: 44.51% (-2.03%) IE 6.0: 17.52% (-0.84%) Safari: 8.21% (-0.02%) Safari 4.0: 0.8% Safari 3.x: 6.84% (+0.66%) Chrome: 1.42% (+0.19%) IE [...]

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Browser Market Share – March 2009

April 1, 2009

Using the monthly market share analysis by Net Applications, here is my monthly relase of browser market share. Firefox:  22.05% (+0.28%) FF 3.0:  19.66% (+0.55%) FF 2.0:  1.99% (-0.28%) Internet Explorer:  66.82% (-0.62%) IE 8.0:  3.07% (+3.07%) IE 7.0:  46.54% (-0.78%) IE 6.0:  18.36% (-0.49%) Safari:  8.23% (+0.21%) Safari 4.0: N/A Safari 3.x:  6.18% (-0.58%) [...]

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