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During website development it is very important to take into account what browsers your visitors use for web surfing. We have already considered the notion of cross-browser compatibility and the ways of reaching it in the article “Web programming. What is cross-browser?”. But in this very article we want to give a brief review of the most popular Internet browsers.
Every time you need to go online you press the icon of your browser without any hesitation. Voilà – you are on your favorite sites reading news, sharing opinion, communicating with friends and like-minded people. A browser is a special application which is intended for presentation of interface between the site visitor and the site itself. The browser processes data of web pages and presents them in the form which is understandable for the user. Someone prefers Internet Explorer as a browser. It is supplied together with Microsoft Windows OS on default. Someone cannot imagine Internet surfing without Mozilla Firefox or Opera. Some browsers work only under the management of one operating system, others are available for several OS.
What browsers does the majority of Internet users prefer? There is no simple answers to this question. There are tens and even hundreds of researches devoted to this problem. Statistical data from all over the world and, for instance, from Europe or Ukraine may be considerably different.
For example, according to the data of StatCounter analytical company, according to the state from November 2006 till November 2009 the TOP-5 of Internet browsers is the following:
In the world:
In Europe:
In Ukraine:
Thus TOP-5 of leaders invariably includes Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Opera, Google Chrome and Safari. That is why while considering the cross-browser question of the developed site you should be guided by these Internet browsers depending on the geography of the target audience which is embraced by the site.
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