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@lSpam

I agree it is surprising. IE9 has made significant improvements in terms of standards and cutting-edge browser technology. People may scoff that Firefox will still be king of the web, but it gained in popularity because it was the best (only, really) alternative at the time of some awful IE versions. Chrome is steadily gaining steam, and IE9 is pretty serious business.

If we get to laugh at anyone now, it's probably Opera. For as much effort they put into their products they just never seem to gain any ground.

@lSpam

I cant remember the last time I used IE. I hate how much its holding things back web design wise.

And then there is GFWL. What is microsoft trying to do to the world?

@lSpam
Microsoft embraces web standards now for the most part. Apple's the one who tends to scoff at them. Which is why it's amusing that for all their talk about how HTML 5 is great and all, this doesn't work on iOS devices.

@Lukeyo

Opera's lack of browser share gains makes me sad. They've done some really impressive things in the last 10 years, and they are still implementing wonderful ideas. (I cannot browse without Tab Stacking, easily the best thing Opera has done since the Speed Dial back in version 9.2)

The things that prevented Opera from catching on:
1. Was shareware during the IE6 days. Opera really missed their shot here, and the flood over to Firefox was too great by the time Opera went completely free.
2. Not very user friendly. Opera is incredibly powerful and has more under the hood than any other browser out there. But you wouldn't know that if you weren't an Opera enthusiast. Luckily, they are getting much, much better at this.
3. A pathetic advertising budget/reach. Opera can't afford a massive ad campaign like Google did. Not at all.

Opera can still survive in the desktop browser market, but theres no way they will ever crack double digits in the desktop market. If it wasn't for their outstanding mobile browsers, they would have been dead a while ago.

I just wish they could get enough users to surpass Safari. I mean, come on. Really? Safari? Opera's better than that.

@LEONLEONLEON

It's 2010, IE9 has good but not perfect web standards support, the brower is fast, and Microsoft even started a campaign to get people to stop using IE6:

http://www.theie6countdown.com/

I fail to see how IE is holding back anything.

@Odog4ever
i agree. microsoft has made signicant improvements to more web standard than in the past. they are even getting involved with the W3C to help develop the standards for HTML5 and CSS3. they still do some things their way simply because they have enough market share to do so.

@db2 Hah! Nice one, bro

@Ryguy226
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