Windows 10: Microsoft Edge gains a little bit of market share in February

That's my precise evaluation of IE 11. Exact sentiments here.

 

There a few things to remember in this debate:

(1) IE started it all, and many of us grew up with IE as the ONLY browser available.
(2) Many large corporates in my area of the world, standardised on IE as the only way to access the intranet as well as internal systems, so even if you wanted to, you could not, not use IE.
(3) I tried virtually every browser that popped out of the woodwork, but if it did not make a real difference to my daily working it was discarded.
(4) Edge 13, is actually a very good browser. Its ratings in terms of compliance with "international standards" are fast catching up with others. The browser is fast, and real easy to use.
(5) Chrome upset me very quickly with all the hassles one had to customise it, so I have it as a back up only.
(6) IE remains a way to "test" how well a website has been written. IF a site works with IE, one can be pretty sure the code has been written properly. IE is not tolerant of badly written code.
If you are truly interested in trying to be objective about this matter, and get all emotional about the subject, have a look at this site for a fairly good assessment of browsers . HTML5test - How well does your browser support HTML5?

Of course there are other "tests" available to use, and the above is not the only one, just one of the better ones.

 

Thank you for the link
I put Edge against IE11 among others and Edge beat IE11
It Came second to the latest release I believe of Chrome which is good considering it is only a baby compared to the other Browsers

 

I still use ie11. It does fine for what I need and works fine on Windows 10. It basically boils down to preference. Right now Edge doesn't handle extensions. Until it does I see no reason, for me, to use it. Once it does then I'll try it out.*Smile

 

Agree, I access a number of sites on a daily basis which require extensions, so IE 11 is crucial for me. But for casual access of the web, Edge is fast becoming my "go to" browser.

The only other browser I use is "Opera" which just happens to work the best on the tablet I have. To be honest I prefer to use a browser that is compatible with the operating system on my PC, so Edge 13 and IE 11 will remain my favourites.

 

"(1) IE started it all" I was using Netscape way before IE came out.

 

Remember that well it was a very nice Browser

 

+1 +1 +1 +1

 

My first online experience was with a service called Prodigy.

 

All together I look after 40 different systems
All running Windows 10 and Edge and none of them have ever given me any trouble
That is including my daughters systems
My grand daughters who are at uni use only 10 and Edge and Windows Mail App
I could if there was any trouble be able to access them remotely
So now everyone now knows why I praise it

 

+1 +1 +1 +1

 

Yes I guess that is correct. Netscape was released in December 1994, with beta versions before that. IE 1 came out in August 1995 .

Before that, Windows users were using a early browser called "Spyglass". My exposure to the Internet started I with the release of the windows 95 plus upgrade.

 

Hmmmm I swore that there were completed 16-bit Navigator versions within 1993. Wow! I must have remembered incorrectly. At the Comdex show in 1993, I saw some Sun Workstations using Open Look and Motif desktops that were browisng, but I don't know what the browser application was.
*Smile

 

I didn't remember what year it was. I just knew that my first browser was Netscape. Before that I was using the Prodigy service which was all proprietary at first. It wasn't until later that they allowed access to the web.

 

Most of us in SA were exposed to PCs first at work, so it depended very much on what the company you were working for was up to at the time.
Going into the history, I see there were quite a few proprietary systems around before 1994, and quite a few Netscape versions before the generally accepted public release in December 1994.

I was involved in trial "remote banking systems" at the time. A Proprietary system developed in SA by our telecom provider and one banking institution. This was long before 1994, in fact as early as 1982/1983. I suppose in today's language, one could describe it as a DOS App.

Internet Browsing really started for us in SA with the release of Windows 95 and the Plus add on/upgrade which included IE1.