On: Google Chrome has 20% global market share

[rmc]

The great thing about IE being now a minority browser is that web developers can now say "Oh you want IE6/7/8 support? Oh, that's a minority browser that doesn't support recent things, we can't do that/will charge lots more/etc."

[MartinCron → rmc]

I think the phrase you're looking for is "plurality browser".

[yuhong → rmc]

Which means we can finally change from text/html to application/xhtml+xml. This way IE8 and earlier users will get a download message, and you won't have to worry about polyglot/Appendix C anymore.

[estel → rmc]

Minority? Sure, if compared to every other browser. But in that respect, surely every browser is a minority browser?

[rmc → estel]

No, IE/IE6 used to be a majority browser. It used to have 80%+ of the browser share. You could not refuse it. Now, you can.