Hacker News Reader

HNHacker News

Top New Best Ask Show Jobs

Comment by ck2 | Hacker News Reader

Parent Full thread

ck2·

China strangely at 26% but why is Japan (and India) at 2% still?

View on HN

Depends on who's stats you believe. According to this, IE6 in China has dropped quite a bit in the past year:

http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser_version-CN-monthly-201203...

It's under 5%.

On another note, IE7 is probably under 1% in most of the world. IE8 is the new minimum browser for developers?

It's a simplification but Netapplications count users and Statcounter counts usage.

People using IE6 are unlikely to be heavy web surfers so they are more heavily weighted on the Net application numbers (which ironically Microsoft generally prefers, as it makes IE look more important.)

Which is why Net Apps' stats are so useless and misleading, and I don't know why sites keep using it as the standard. I don't want to be counted as a "user" of IE if I happen to use it once a month or every 3 months, while using Chrome 12 hour a day.

I can live with IE8, it's not pretty but it can at least be worked with and then there is Chromeframe which makes it render exactly like Chrome.

Since XP has a year left to live and then probably another year or two of stubborn folks after that, IE8 will be with us well through 2015.

I was wondering if this has to do with the Great Firewall of China and Packet Shaping in some way.

The other explanation is that China just pirates really old versions of windows for everything.

> China strangely at 26%...

Not that strange given the rampant using of pirated Windows XP and the lack of skill and/or will to upgrade.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com