US Browser Usage - May, 2014
- Chrome: 36%
- Internet Explorer: 24.4%
- FireFox: 16.4%
- Safari: 16.3%
- 360 Safe Browser: 1.7%
- Other: 3.6%
A website should work in every browsers, but some older browsers (like Intenet Explorer 8 and below) don't support modern features. Web developers often employ 'fallbacks' for older browsers. If you visit this page in IE8 you will see an static image instead of a dynamic graph.
IE8 current accounts for 6.27% of internet traffic. This will continue to shrink, but in the mean time a fallback is used to make sure old browsers still see a chart.