Cameron Adams decided to benchmark Flash, SVG, Canvas and HTML5 using a particle engine he created. Not surprising (to me anyway), the SVG scores were the worst of the bunch. This stands to reason: does each particle really need to be a DOM element? Nonetheless, I decided to see what I could do to make the SVG scores suck less. I thought I'd use it as an opportunity to also teach some techniques.
Update: Added some browser scores for Nov 2011
I've updated my marketshare spreadsheet for February 2010 charting the percentage of web users who can view SVG/Canvas: 37.92%
P.S. I should mention that 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 ExplorerCanvas shims, so this is really a worst-case number.
I've updated my marketshare spreadsheet for January 2010 charting the percentage of web users who can view SVG/Canvas: 36.86%
P.S. I should mention that 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 ExplorerCanvas shims, so this is really a worst-case number.
I decided to start publishing the percentage of web users who can view SVG/Canvas, starting with December 2009: 35.62%
P.S. I should mention that 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 ExplorerCanvas shims, so this is really a worst-case number.