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A lot, if not all, webdesigners hate IE6. This version of Internet Explorer was released in late 2001 but still was one of the larger webbrowsers in 2009. This is w3 school's table for this year, as you can see IE7 will probably go under IE6 in the next months:

July 2009

IE7: 15.9%
IE6: 14.4%
IE8: 9.1%
Firefox: 47.9%
Chrome: 6.5%
Safari: 3.3%
Opera: 2.1%

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IE has been the leading browser ever since I can remember, at least in the countries where I target my website on, some countries have always had another taste.

In 2008 Microsoft announced that standards compliant websites would be forced to opt into a standards rendering mode in IE8, otherwise your site would risk being blacklisted What a horrifying thought to be on such a list just because you disagree with Microsoft's definition of standards.

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Testing the new version of Apple's Safari, I discovered there are some really awesome features in the browser. Though the Press Release claimed that this would be the world's fastest and most innovative browser so far, but this is not my experience.
The new and flashy interfaces like 'cover folow' as we know it from Itunes / Ipod actually are far slower than the same features in Google's Chrome. naturally, Apple is talking about browsing websites and not the browsers (offline) functions, but I thought this speed was worth mentioning as well.

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SAN FRANCISCO—June 8, 2009—Apple® today released Safari® 4, the world’s fastest and most innovative web browser. Available for Mac® and Windows PCs and introduced as a beta in February of this year, Safari 4 features the Nitro engine which runs JavaScript up to 4.5 times faster than Safari 3.* Safari 4 makes browsing more intuitive and enjoyable with innovative features, such as Top Sites, Full History Search and Cover Flow®, and support for modern web standards like HTML 5 and advanced CSS Effects.

“The successful beta release helped us fine tune Safari 4 into an even better, faster version that customers are going to love,” said Philip Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing. “Safari is enjoyed by 70 million users worldwide and with its blazing fast speed, innovative features and support for modern web standards, it’s the best browser on any platform.”

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SAN FRANCISCO—June 8, 2009—Apple® today unveiled Mac OS® X Snow Leopard™, an even more powerful and refined version of the world’s most advanced operating system and the foundation for future Mac® innovation. Snow Leopard builds on a decade of OS X innovation and success with hundreds of refinements, new core technologies, out of the box support for Microsoft Exchange and new accessibility features. Snow Leopard will ship as an upgrade for Mac OS X Leopard users in September 2009 for $29.

“We’ve built on the success of Leopard and created an even better experience for our users from installation to shutdown,” said Bertrand Serlet, Apple’s senior vice president of Software Engineering. “Apple engineers have made hundreds of improvements so with Snow Leopard your system is going to feel faster, more responsive and even more reliable than before.”

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