Do You See What I See? (Part Two)

I'll show you mine if you show me yours ...

Did you know not everyone uses the same web browsers to view the Internet? This means not everyone sees stuff on the web the exact same way, as the different browsers interpret data differently. Which is a huge headache at times to web designers like us! Even an newly updated browser may not display things the same way the previous version just did two days ago. What can you do? Well, nothing, really. That's the sad truth. We just try to work out the bugs we find with each update, and manage the quirks between the browsers as we find them. That and complain about it. A lot.

I digress. The majority of web users use Internet Explorer, and indeed many believe this is all there is. But a growing number of users have switched to Firefox (myself included). And there are several other browsers that are used very infrequently. Check out this site for the current "market share." In November 2007, it looked like this:


You can see how easily IE tops out it's competitors!

To learn more about how web browsers do their job, go here. I bet you haven't ever really thought about it before now. You have to decide which browser works best for how you use the Internet. (Of course, you can always just go with the flow!)