# Browser statistics

Will we always have shitty browsers?

> **Editor's note:** This post was published on 2011-06-11. Now it’s 2020-12-03,
> and what the naïve dev (me) wrote back then is out-of-date. Now we have only
> two browsers to worry about: Firefox and Chromium, and there isn’t an outdated
> browser keeping the tail. IE 11 maybe dangles there still, but quite easy to
> handle.

It’s exciting to follow the
[Global Webstats](http://www.w3counter.com/globalstats.php), to see a new month
roll in is "magical". To see IE6 diminish slowly, and IE9 and Chrome climbing
up. Slow and tedious process towards a better web, to a better and richer world,
filled with wholesome and semantic experiences. It’s like turning a huge tanker,
millions and millions of home computers slowly catching up.

In back of my head, I have a feeling that someday things will be better, the
tedious times of testing with Microsoft browsers will be history. As I first
heard about IE9 to be the first actually good browser from Microsoft, I was
exhilarated, one day we will be free from the agony of testing multiple
browsers!

The truth could not be more different. It is never over. The only stable thing
in this cosmos we are living in is: change. There will always be browser in the
end of the list that you wish would disappear.

But yeah, Internet is like ~17 years old, not very old at all. Web standards not
even that long. Imagine what the car industry was when it was 17 years old? One
could think that web is very advanced right now. It's not. But it will be!
Probably things will get easier as the web matures.