Which Is The Fastest Browser?
Challenges & Strategies For A Multi-Browser World
Take away your word processor, your email client, all the apps on your computer and smartphone. If you have a Web browser, you can do without all of them. Take away the Web browser, though, and a lot of us would be out of business, and the worlds stupid cat videos would be searching in vain for an audience.
No piece of software is as critical to the way the world works, communicates and plays today as the Web browser. Fifty percent of computer time is spent in the Web browser, according to the Microsoft Internet Explorer team and for many, its much more. Businesses are increasingly adopting browser-based and browser-enhanced apps like salesforce.com, Google Apps, and Microsoft Office Live. More and more businesses and consumers are embracing various forms of browser-based communications, networking and conferencing. And then theres our insatiable appetite for shopping, entertainment, and information.
The browser is the focal point of our digital lives, and as such is central to how we work, play and manage every day. And today, the world of browsers is a crowded and complicated place.
From the earliest days of the Web, the browser was recognized as prime turf. Netscape Navigator was the first widely adopted browser, and it wasnt long after its introduction in 1994 that it had captured more than 90 percent of the market and Netscape actually charged money for the software. Navigator worked on a variety of operating systems, essentially leveling the Web playing field right out of the gate. It didnt matter what computer or OS you used, the Web would always look and act the same through the Netscape window.
Seeing an opportunity, Microsoft fired the first shot in the first browser war. Starting with Windows 95, Microsoft began bundling its own Web browser, Internet Explorer, for free with its operations system. No one has paid for browser software since. With ownership of the desktop, and deep pockets to delay legal challenges to its browser-bundling practice, Microsoft soon took ownership of the browser market even on Apple Macs a position it occupied well into the 2000s.
In 1998, America Online absorbed Netscape, and by 2003, the organization that pioneered the Web browser was disbanded. But even before it was acquired by AOL, Netscape had seeded the open-source Mozilla project, which would ultimately produce Firefox.
And Chrome, introduced by Google in late 2008, is the fastest-growing browser, soaring nearly 75 percent since last July to corral 12.52 percent of the overall browser market.
For the foreseeable future, the market looks to remain splintered, with Firefox and Chrome doing their best to eat away at IE, and Safari staying comfortably in its niche. But what does this mean for website owners and developers? Not that long ago, it was a safe bet to
website optimize for IE and know that youd be covered for the vast majority of users. But with the number two and three browser shares at more than a third of the market and growing,
cross-browser compatibility is a priority that can no longer be ignored. How big an issue is it? And how hard is it to develop a site thats reliable in multiple browsers?
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