To provide a truly inclusive experience, one must optimize web apps for Internet Explorer. Hence, choosing not to optimize your website for IE can lead to loss of revenue & traffic from such customers. There are users (generally older individuals) who might have used IE for over a decade, making IE their default browser.It is still one of the most recognizable browsers in the world. Despite its low market share, bear in mind that IE has significant brand recognition.While the low market share of Internet Explorer might make it seem like one can simply avoid testing websites on IE, this is not the case.
Is it still relevant to test and optimize web applications for Internet Explorer? Having said this, let’s try to answer an important question. IE holds a global market share of 1.08% in the desktop browsing space. Watch out: the browser wars just got exciting again.It’s no secret that the glory days of Internet Explorer (IE) are behind us. In all, Microsoft Internet Explorer 9 is faster and prettier than its predecessors - and really throws down the gauntlet to its competitors. New features like hang recovery and InPrivate Filtering provide Internet Explorer a stabler and more secure web experience than most other browsers. IE 9 features decent support for HTML 5 (the new generation of media-rich websites use this language), and now finishes the Acid 3 test with a near-perfect 95/100. Internet Explorer 9 also offers improved speed and performance, as well as better compliance with web standards and new technologies.
The new Performance Advisor add-on identifies add-ons that are slowing Internet Explorer down (a feature badly needed in Mozilla Firefox). IE 9 also lets you 'pin' websites to the Superbar and allows you to bookmark your favorite websites as 'applications' in your OS. Among the new features included in Internet Explorer 9 are better integration with the Windows operating system and a seriously beefed-up security system.
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