Subject: Re: [boost] [git] Submodule's readme and logo
From: Daniel James (daniel_at_[hidden])
Date: 2013-12-13 13:48:10
On 13 December 2013 18:07, Paul A. Bristow <pbristow_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Boost [mailto:boost-bounces_at_[hidden]] On Behalf Of Daniel James
>> Sent: Friday, December 13, 2013 4:57 PM
>> To: boost_at_[hidden]
>> Subject: Re: [boost] [git] Submodule's readme and logo
>>
>> On 13 December 2013 16:09, Paul A. Bristow <pbristow_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>> > Not sure I understand this ?
>> >
>> > Did you mean IE 9.0 was the most popular IE version? (This is the
>> > first to support SVG)
>> >
>> > or
>> >
>> > "About 4% of the total logged http requests for the past few days were
>> > from IE 6/7/8 " Does this mean that of these 4%, IE8 is the most popular?
>>
>> No, IE 8 is the most popular individual version of internet explorer.
>> The different versions are roughly at:
>>
>> MSIE 6.0 - 0.4%
>> MSIE 7.0 - 1.1%
>> MSIE 8.0 - 2.5%
>> MSIE 9.0 - 1.5%
>> MSIE 10.0 - 1.2%
>>
>> I forgot that Internet Explorer 11 uses a different browser id, so it isn't included.
>
> Windows 7 and 8 Users will automatically get this as an update, so I suspect lots are missing from
> this count?
It doesn't really matter since they changed the browser id because new
Internet Explorer shouldn't be a special case. But about 1.6% of
requests contain "Trident/7.0". A small number of them are running in
compatibility mode, so they're acting like older versions, and are
included in the list above.