Browsers: IE, Chrome, Firefox, etc.
Browsers convert HTML code in to a visual display on the users computer. The Microsoft Browser, Internet Explorer ("IE") is the most popular browser, but it's market trend is falling. The general trend in browser usage during the last ten years has been away from Internet Explorer.
IE browsers have some good features, but they have sometimes lagged other browsers in complaince with W3C Standards and adoption of CSS3. Each version of IE (the latest versions are IE7, IE8, IE9 and IE10 beta) has tended to display identical web pages fairly differently.
Global Browser Stats, January 2012:
| Chrome 16 | 22.30% |
| Internet Explorer 8 | 15.32% |
| Firefox 9 | 12.42% |
| Internet Explorer 9 | 8.36% |
| Internet Explorer 7 | 5.93% |
| Safari 5 | 5.63% |
| Firefox 8 | 4.32% |
| Firefox 3.6 | 3.89% |
| Opera 11.1 | 1.48% |
| iPhone 5 | 1.32% |