HTML5
Two years ago I blogged:
Desktop browser market share, as measured by Net Applications, currently puts IE at 51.87% of the market. StatsCounter has IE at 37.82% of the market and breaks out IE by versions with January 2012; IE6 at 1.62%, IE7 at 3.7%, IE8 at 21.14%, and IE9 at 11.36%. Presumably much IE share comes from corporations that upgraded from IE6 to IE8 and will remain on IE8 for a while longer. If I had time I could run the stats for all browsers share against the support level to get a weighted average of the HTML5 support in the market. I don't have time to do that and instead will focus on IE because that is largest share among my viewers and represents the largest problem for HTML5.
IE6 scored 25 or 6.25% support for HTML5 and has 1.62% of market share
IE7 scored 26 or 6.5%, has 3.7% market share
IE8 scored 41 or 10.25%, has 21.15% market share
IE9 scored 141 or 35.25%, has 11.26% market share
In order to make sure my website performs the best for the majority of users reaching the site I look at these numbers and see no reason to move ahead with re-coding my site to HTML5 until browsers (IE specifically) increase support for the new standards, or until browsers remove support for the old standards and force me to rewrite my code. I am not alone. I could not locate stats on how much of the Internet uses HTML5 currently, but did find an article that claims 34% of the top 100 most popular sites use HTML5. Keep in mind in order to do so the sites must either add custom code to replicate the HTML5 functionality or maintain separate code for unsupported browsers. Either way, a luxury attainable to only the largest sites online. So for now the new standard remains effectively shelved until more support from the browsers emerges.
Perhaps I should have simply gone to the countdown site "Is HTML5 Ready Yet?" first.
"browsers will not support [HTML5] until 2012 at the earliest and perhaps not as soon as 2022"A quick update of the status of HTML5 support, courtesy of "The HTML5 test" shows out of 400 points possible the best browser scores 373, only supporting 93.35% of HTML5 functionality.
Desktop browser market share, as measured by Net Applications, currently puts IE at 51.87% of the market. StatsCounter has IE at 37.82% of the market and breaks out IE by versions with January 2012; IE6 at 1.62%, IE7 at 3.7%, IE8 at 21.14%, and IE9 at 11.36%. Presumably much IE share comes from corporations that upgraded from IE6 to IE8 and will remain on IE8 for a while longer. If I had time I could run the stats for all browsers share against the support level to get a weighted average of the HTML5 support in the market. I don't have time to do that and instead will focus on IE because that is largest share among my viewers and represents the largest problem for HTML5.
IE6 scored 25 or 6.25% support for HTML5 and has 1.62% of market share
IE7 scored 26 or 6.5%, has 3.7% market share
IE8 scored 41 or 10.25%, has 21.15% market share
IE9 scored 141 or 35.25%, has 11.26% market share
In order to make sure my website performs the best for the majority of users reaching the site I look at these numbers and see no reason to move ahead with re-coding my site to HTML5 until browsers (IE specifically) increase support for the new standards, or until browsers remove support for the old standards and force me to rewrite my code. I am not alone. I could not locate stats on how much of the Internet uses HTML5 currently, but did find an article that claims 34% of the top 100 most popular sites use HTML5. Keep in mind in order to do so the sites must either add custom code to replicate the HTML5 functionality or maintain separate code for unsupported browsers. Either way, a luxury attainable to only the largest sites online. So for now the new standard remains effectively shelved until more support from the browsers emerges.
Perhaps I should have simply gone to the countdown site "Is HTML5 Ready Yet?" first.
respond or e-mail this post:
0 Comments:
Post a Comment
<< Home