In the begining were two - bouth sucked

In 90's, Netscape fighting with Microsoft for the prize "Most Used Browser" and Microsoft gave Netscape's browser a major beating and Netscape allmost disappeared off the radar. You will think that Netscape lost the war because the IE (Internet Explorer) was the better browser - and it's true becouse the Netscape 4.0 was really bad. The reality is that IE win because is part of OS Windows.

Web Standards. So with Netscape practically dead, IE win over the market with 98%. In meantime, a gang of man decide to push the official "web standards" that none of the browsers supported very whell. The Web Standards Project was formed because it had become a pain for the web designers to create good looking websites that worked with used browsers. The "Web Standards" are basicaly making it official how web browsers should read and understand web pages. It's very important that all browsers work the same way so webdesigners hair don't become white.

For wears IE has been left unchallenged, but in the last yers IE has actualy been losing significant ground in the browser war. IE drop from 97% to 76.3%! (2005). Now the fact are a "little" bit diffrent (the statistics are rom February 2007):

• Internet Explorer +6 - 52%
• FireFox (Mozilla before 2005) - 31.2%
• Opera - 1.5%
• Netscape (Mozilla after 2006) - 1.4%
• Maxthon - 1.1%

Browsers that count for less that 1% are not listed.

OS Platform Statistics. Windows XP is the most popular oprating sistem. The windows family counts for nearly 90%.

• Windows XP - 76.1 %
• Windows 2000 - 7.4%
• Windows 98 - 0,7%
• Windows Vista - 1.2%
• Linux - 3.5%
• Mac - 3.8%

Why IE losing ground? Educated users, IE security issues, Others Browsers are freakin fast. IE dominate just because come with Windows and people used just because was there. Now the people knows to use computer and internet, and they are starting to look at others options.