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This is the last year on Mibbit (main client). http://mibbit.com/browserShare.png

What was surprising to me is that chrome is stealing share from IE. Which is fantastic news! Course the other theory would be that firefox is stealing share from IE, but Chrome is stealing share from firefox at about the same rate.

But in any event, less IE is good for the web.

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> But in any event, less IE is good for the web.

My hatred for IE 6 notwithstanding, I'd phrase it: browser diversity is good for the web. I see nothing wrong about using IE 8 (although it's not my personal choice), because thanks to competition it's actually a decent browser.

Agreed @ Browser diversity.

I disagree about IE8 being a decent browser, but that's just my take on it. Safari,chrome,opera,firefox, all are in a different league to IE.

There's nothing decent about IE8 -- and competition doesn't really apply to it since it's installed (and upgraded) by default on the majority of PC's. Since nobody chooses IE, there is no real incentive to make it competitive.

Have you actually used IE8 as your main browser for any length of time? It's actually quite good. Certainly better than FireFox+Firebug for development, with its proper javascript debugger.

If it weren't for Chrome, I'd be using it today.

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