Competition between Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox: How Internet Users Winning with Better Implementation of CSS
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The latest figures by Net Applications for Q4 December 2010 put Firefox with a market share of 22.8% of all web browsers globally, while IE (Internet Explorer) leads with 57.1%. Historically, the browser market has been dominated by IE. In 2004 Q4, IE accounted for 91.35% market share when Mozilla was still nascent at 3.66%.
However, over the years, Firefox has been finding increased acceptance, and its share has risen quite consistently. According to Net Applications statistics, Firefox in Q4 of 2009 had the highest 24.4% browser’s market share. Other players in the browser market are Chrome with 9.23% share, Safari with 5.59%, and Opera with 2.24% as of Q4 2010 statisitcs by Net Applications.
It should be noted that such figures are only approximate. By browser’s usage share, it means that how many users use particular browser while visiting a particular set of websites. This figure can be distorted because of number of technical reasons: for instance, not all requests are made by a user and user agents may also can make requests without any input from the user. In such cases, the overall figures may be raised for those browsers from where such automated requests were made. Also, because of other technical reasons, there can be underestimation and overestimation.
One of the important function of any browser is that it helps implementation of CSS. So, what is CSS? Well, according to wikipedia, “CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) is a style sheet language used to describe the presentation semantics (the look and formatting) of a document written in a markup language.” Its most prevalent use is to style web pages written in HTML and XHTML, but the language can also be applied to any kind of XML document, including SVG and XUL.
CSS primarily helps to differentiate presentation of a document from the document content. These include layout, colors, and fonts. One of the utility of CSS is that it allows users to have greater control over the presentation of contents. This has an important role in today’s easy-to-use Content Management System (CMS), improving content accessibility and imparting more flexibility in terms of presentation characterstics.
It is CSS which allows the same content to be presented in different styles for on-screen, print, and by voice.
The competition between implementation of a universal CSS code is an ongoing process. The first CSS description to develop into an official W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) Recommendation is CSS level 1. It was published in December 1996. CSS level 2 was published as a Recommendation in May 1998. CSS level 3 has been under designing process since December 15, 2005.
Popular web browsers, including Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Chrome, Safari, and Opera are regularly in the process of incorporating CSS features that adhere to the standards of W3C. The end users like you and me definitely benefit from such healthy one-man upmanship.
By: Harry Tata
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