I happened upon the Internet Explorer Extinct By 2013? article today on sitepoint.com. I was excited reading this to think that there could ever be a day (again) that I didn’t have to develop for Microsoft’s Internet Explorer web browser due to either it dropping below the 10% that I won’t waste my time designing for or, dare I say, it become extinct!

As always, information in this SitePoint article, is a bit misleading and the reality check sets in as I read the comments left by other readers. If there is one thing I have learned about statistical data, it’s that you always have to take it with a grain of salt and look at the context in which it was formulated. This data was collected solely from sitepoint.com’s website statistics and I am sure would not show this trend on non-webmaster related websites.

Most users who are on sitepoint.com are far from the average Internet user. These are mostly developers, designers, internet marketing and other Internet-related folk who are much more in the know that there is more then just the standardly installed Internet Explorer from which to browse the Internet.

The majority of us who make our bread and butter from the Internet pray on a daily basis for the demise of the Internet Explorer web browser due to Microsoft’s unwillingness to conform to the standards set out by the W3c among other well-known problems with Internet Explorer such as security issues.

Wishful thinking? Perhaps. But I still hold my breath for the day it happens.