Re: Safari gains browser share, as Firefox dips
@Netizen Kane: Hand coding is easy. Dreamweaver is junk that slows it down. If you learn to use PHP or Ruby or Perl or Python just a little bitty bit, you can save a lot of time by not typing the same thing over and over and over. Need something more? Use a CMS. (content management system) Dreamweaver? no way. TextMate!
@steve... Konqueror and Safari are the gold standard of beauty! It's the Ajax capabilities that are lacking slightly. and the buttons need to be more flexible not only Aqua.
Firefox is good, but still also doesn't quite render the ACID2 test right. It's CSS positioning isn't perfect, but better than IE7 overall.
Even IE7 has to get some credit for vast improvements. But still has a ways to go.
Unfortunately, the majority of windows users (consumers and business) haven't upgraded to IE7, so they still can't even see PNG graphics correctly.
As for how they determine browser stats? Easy. Server logs. The header of an HTTP request includes buttloads of information about your computer every time you click on something. A text string that identifies your browser and OS is one part of that. Web servers do keep all this information and analyze it. mainly, they need to know how better to serve their users.
5% may seem small, but it's 5 % of how much? It's a lot. Significant. For specific servers that percentage may be higher or lower.