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.
The one persistent mantra I hear from staunch Flash defenders, folks like John Dowdell, is that Flash gives you the benefit of one consistent runtime. The Flash platform probably renders more consistently across browsers than HTML+SVG+Canvas+CSS – since the plugin directly controls a box of pixels on the web page I should hope so! But is it equally consistent across operating systems? And has it always been that way? Read the rest of this entry …
One year ago today, Narendra Sisodiya started a tiny project called SVG-edit, with the very first check-in. He was trying to build a white-boarding application that could be used to facilitate online education. Read the rest of this entry …
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.
Robin Berjon posted about what his SVG 2.0 Wishlist would be. I think he used the hatchet a little too much, so I thought I’d give some feedback. Since he doesn’t support comments (boo!) here we go. Read the rest of this entry …