Internet Explorer’s Fail Whale-Like Adoption
Mozilla’s Asa Dotzler gathered information from 40 different data sources to create this cool visualization of browser adoption since April of 1996.
Dotzler’s commentary speaks for itself:
The first thing that really jumps out at me is that Netscape, for all its early success, was used by relatively few people. The pie was just a lot smaller at the end of the last century.
The second thing that jumps out is that the blue IE shape kinda looks like the Twitter Fail Whale
We just need a year or so of them actually losing users in absolute terms.
The infographic is great at pointing out Netscape was never quite the behemoth it seemed at the time. What Dotzler fails to mention is that it also shows that Firefox’s chunk isn’t as big as you might have thought, given the amount of hype surrounding it.
For all that blue on the page, it seems like Firefox and “other” browsers will have a whale-like hump to climb if they ever want to make substantial headway against Internet Explorer. It may look like a Fail Whale to Dotzler, but from Microsoft’s point of view, it looks like a tidal wave.
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