The latest PC browser market share in China is a mixed blessing for front-end developers!

Today, I checked Baidu statistics Traffic Research Institute's recent domestic browser market and operating system share in China. I was surprised! This is especially bad news for the hard-pressed front-end web developers in China! See Figure :( see http://tongji.baidu.com/data/browser)

Figure 1: Chinese PC browser market share in the last three months

 

Figure 2: Chinese PC operating system market share in the last three months

 

Baidu's statistics are still very reliable. Baidu understands China better and you have to admit it!

The market share of browsers is similar to what I think. But the most incredible thing is that even though Microsoft announced

The Windows XP operating system will completely stop providing patches and security updates in April 8, 2014. However, WINXP is so strong in its operating system share that it is still above 70%! In addition, Microsoft decided that ie9 and later browsers cannot be installed on WINXP, which leads to the strong presence of IE8 and IE6 in the Chinese browser market. IE8 is strong because it is the highest version of IE browser that WINXP users can use, and IE8 is also the browser that comes with win7. IE6 is strong because it is a browser that comes with WINXP and users who are not used to tab-based browsers. It is not hard to see that the key reason for the Chinese PC browser market share is the operating system share. With the decline of WINXP and the rise of win7 and Win8. The decline of IE versions earlier than ie10 is inevitable. However, 2 ~ In three years, IE8 will still rank first, and ie10 will soon reach or surpass IE6 to 2nd, thanks to the auto update push function of ie10 in win7. At the same time, win7 is likely to become the next WINXP, but we should also see that the rapid development of the mobile Internet and operating system has exceeded the PC in terms of network traffic. Browsers in mobile smart devices provide better support for the latest web technologies than IE8 and earlier versions. However, for Web Front-end developers, it is difficult to develop multiple devices and screen sizes. Then again, the user is always right. For most online users in China, chatting about QQ, playing games, watching videos, and so on are the main theme of their online lives. Upgrading the operating system and browsers is of little significance to them, their habits of WINXP and IE6 are deep-rooted, and even they never know what software updates and upgrades are! In addition, if front-end development is too simple, the value of front-end developers will be greatly reduced. This is a challenge, but it is not a good thing to think about it!