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by zaarn 3022 days ago
Linux has 2.3% marketshare (counting ChromeOS and not accounting for users blocking scripts, which is also disproportionally large on linux)
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It may be disproportionately large, but it's still small enough to not have useful effect on such statistics.
Do you know this wouldn't have an effect or do you guess it wouldn't?

In the end, support chrome is simply supporting another Internet-Explorer-era. Maybe not as IE but it would be very similar.

If you or your company only develop for chrome you're not better than any of the websites that proudly state they will only work under IE6. End of story.

> In the end, support chrome is simply supporting another Internet-Explorer-era. Maybe not as IE but it would be very similar.

IMO - it is foolish to put Chrome and IE in the same box.

> If you or your company only develop for chrome you're not better than any of the websites that proudly state they will only work under IE6. End of story.

I don't think anyone is going to make an argument to only support Chrome, there's clearly other browser tech out there that we as devs must support. I will however say that you should prioritize supporting the most popular browsing platforms (browser, screen, device, OS, etc) when building applications and/or during testing.

Since you're touting Linux utilization - I will say that I better have a helluva testing budget (time and money) if I'm going to even touch on the long-tail platform combos (anything < 5%). The only reason my apps are heavily tested in Linux is because they're developed on a Debian Jessie box =D