I’ve updated my marketshare spreadsheet for Nov 2010 charting the percentage of web users who can view SVG and Canvas: 44.57%
I'm also tracking what percentage of web users can see SVG in an <img> tag: 18.41%
I’ve updated my marketshare spreadsheet for Aug 2010 charting the percentage of web users who can view SVG and Canvas: 41.08%
Still looking for more stats sites - it seems that W3Counter is also not reliable (their public web stats for August were still not generated as of Sep 12th).
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.
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 think the next next browser war will be about how to integrate online services into the browser itself - search plugins were only the beginning. As more and more people rely on things like GMail, Google Docs, Google Reader, and Google Maps it will only be natural for Google to integrate its online services into its Chrome browser. The question will be whether this is anticompetitive at all in the sense that the "hidden" APIs in Windows were considered anti-competitive. I do think Google will make its server-side hooks open and transparent (because it benefits by having other browsers integrate their services).