tle="netmarketshare" width="580" height="199">NetMarketShare?s browser stats for April 2013. Image: Screenshot/Webmonkey
Microsoft?s Internet Explorer 10 saw a meteoric rise in market share last month, jumping from 2.93 percent in March to 6.22 percent in April, according to NetMarketShare.
Some of IE 10?s growth might be attributable to more Windows 8 machines coming online, but it also comes close on the heels of the release of Internet Explorer 10 for Windows 7.
As we noted in our review, IE 10 is a huge step forward for Microsoft?s oft-maligned browser, bringing much better web standards support and considerable speed improvements over IE 9. And there?s plenty to like even on Windows 7 where Microsoft claims users should see a 20 percent increase in performance over IE 9, as well as better battery life on Windows 7 laptops.
While web developers should be happy to see IE 10 gaining some ground given its vastly superior web standards support and speed compared to previous releases, looking at the bigger browser share picture is still disheartening. While IE 10 use may have doubled last month, it still trails IE 6 use worldwide.
The most widely used version of IE on the web remains IE 8, which, while much better than IE 6, still has next to no support for modern web development tools like HTML5 and CSS 3.
As always, progressive enhancement and feature-detection tools like Modernizr are your friends when it comes to older versions of IE.
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