IE Market Share Downward Spiral

The latest numbers are - IMHO - tipping past "concerning to MSFT" to "bloodbath". Firefox over 20% for another month. Safari gaining fast. Chrome over 1% in a few months. The rising sentiment that Web developers can no longer develop solely for IE and ignore the other browsers is now simply a rule.

As for me, let me know when I can write hardware accelerated OpenGL code that runs cross-platform in 95% of browsers, in a Canvas tag, driven by JavaScript, using the default browser install, no plug-ins or Native Clients or whatnot. I'll check back some time late in the next decade.

PS Google Native Client is - for what it is - nicely packaged and fun to mess around with. Anyone who is proclaiming it a Flash/Flex killer probably hasn't actually downloaded NC and run it. It's a loooooong way from being a Flash irritant, let alone killer. It's at about the same stage of maturity that Firefox was the night Blake Ross decided to fork a Web browser instead of going clubbing on South Beach, except that Adobe is an able opponent in "rich clients", while Microsoft has been asleep at the wheel with IE.