The Good, the bad and the ugly.

After having being told to always make sure i don’t use HTML5 or CSS3 just yet. Because of course there are some people out there who still insist in using old browsers, or at least old versions of browsers. I don’t like having to cater to people who are either to lazy or suborn. Of course HTML5 is still not fully integrated into all browsers as of yet, but still i think people should at least update their browsers as soon as they can.

You can take the 2010 stats (gathered based on www.dalemooney.co.uk hits). Internet explorer does seem to have the most amount of users (more users used IE to use my website). That was last year and I think over the last year or so. That has changed, so we can look at the 2011 stats as well.

We can see that Chrome has grown hugely and IE seems to give dropped dramatically. I am very much liking this. Of course versions also play a vital role in wither or I can start using HTML 5 and CSS3 and not having to worry about those poor souls who seem to want to continue using older versions of browsers.

As you can see there are still people using IE 5!, now that’s just plain crazy, but you can see more people are starting to use the latest version of IE. So this is good news, although IE still does not support all HTML5 features (or at least nowhere near the amount the other browsers do).

For some reason my stats pointed out that a VERY old version of firefox was being used this year (Version 3!). I am not so sure how correct that is, but if that is true…then that is very scary, but of course some of the newer versions are not being used as much as i thought they would have been.

You can still see people using older versions of chrome also, the most being version 10, but also a good sign is seeing more people using the newer version of 15. So we still have a fair way to go before people start using the correct browsers. I can see it taking sometime before HTML5 & CSS3 will be safe to use. I just hope that developers will help encourage viewers to change to the latest versions of browsers and make life easier for us programmers an designers.