SVGI’ve updated my marketshare spreadsheet for June 2010 charting the percentage of web users who can view SVG and Canvas: 41.49%
Note that I added "Canvas" back into the title of these blog posts, now that it is public that IE9 is supporting the HTML5 <canvas> element. I've also added SVG-as-an-image (usable inside <img> or as a CSS background-image), since that's something that seems likely to be supported soon by all browsers (Firefox 4, IE9).
P.S. This figure does not take into account any user that has a SVG plugin installed or authors who have used the excellent SVG Web or excanvas shims, so this is really a worst-case number.
Ok, after getting IE9 preview 3 installed last night, I was able to update my SVG scorechart. I'm pleased to say that I would now unequivocally classify IE9 as a browser that supports SVG. Supporting gradients, patterns, masking, clipping and more actually gained them quite a few points.
I'm also pleased to see that they support conditional processing (the <switch> element) so you can see at a rough glance what feature strings they claim to support by accessing this page I made years ago. Not a bad feature set for first time out! Kudos to the IE team!
And they support <canvas> too!
In my brief look at IE9 while running through the SVG tests, I would say their biggest areas to improve on before final release are text (especially text selection) and DOM. Though Alexis assures me that they do pass quite a number of SVG torture tests.
Hey, now that we have all major browsers supporting basic SVG rendering, it's really time to ramp up the effort on SVG Torture Tests to ensure DOM coverage and corner cases. We are looking for someone to lead this activity in the SVG Interest Group.
Oh, and I would love to have SVG-edit working in IE9.
SVGI’ve updated my marketshare spreadsheet for May 2010 charting the percentage of web users who can view SVG: 40.55%
P.S. This figure does not take into account any user that has a SVG plugin installed or authors who have used the excellent SVG Web shim, so this is really a worst-case number.
When I started programming it was on the Commodore 64 (uh oh, you know this is going to be a long story - go take a piss first). I started with Basic and then eventually moved to assembly language to try and write a Bard's Tale clone with a friend. We got pretty far. I just came across the notebooks where I had scribbled all those assembly routines too - great times! But by the time we got close to having something we could call a game, Commodore had lost the battle and the IBM PC clone market was taking off. Different instruction set, different hardware and capabilities. Doh! Read the rest of this entry ...
SVGI’ve updated my marketshare spreadsheet for April 2010 charting the percentage of web users who can view SVG: 40.26%
P.S. This figure does not take into account any user that has a SVG plugin installed or authors who have used the excellent SVG Web shim, so this is really a worst-case number.
§865 · May 6, 2010 · Software, SVG, Technology, Web · Comments Off on SVG Marketshare: April 2010 · Tags: SVG
