It's an IE world, interwebs-wise
Amidst a story on Ars Technica about people who leave their browsers vulnerable by not running security updates (and I’m sometimes lazy about doing this type of thing, I must admit) I was struck by a graphic that displayed current browser market share:
* Internet Explorer – 78.3%
* Firefox – 16.1%
* Safari – 3.4%
* Opera – 0.8%
* Other – 1.4%
A majority of people I know use Firefox – most on PCs, some on Macs. And when you live and read and work tech day in and out, it’s easy to think of the landscape as Firefox and even at times Safari-centric (on the strength of inundations of iPhone ads alone), with a goodly bit of IE in use by the “civilians.”
In Southern California, “IE” typically refers to the Inland Empire, the vast sprawling desert to the east of Los Angles and Orange County, which in recent years has been eaten up by a vast and sprawling suburban landscape.
In web world, IE is where most people are sprawled out.
