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Opera + Chrome + Mozilla (i.e. Theora supporting) market share varies by region but is probably over 50% in every european country bar the UK Why do Opera user
by jmillikin 17y ago
Opera + Chrome + Mozilla (i.e. Theora supporting) market share varies by region but is probably over 50% in every european country bar the UK
Why do Opera users always say something like this? "Opera (and the important browsers) has some huge market share!" 0.2 + 18 + 43 > 50, but the 0.2 really doesn't matter.
- ZeroGravitas 17y agoI phrased it like that because the individual share varies by country and the article is about HTML5 video and Theora which is a cross browser issue. I have never heard anyone use that kind of phrase before, even though I think they should for any discussion of browser standards support. Especially now the IE-Firefox duo are being challenged in the US by Safari and worldwide by Chrome, and doubly-especially in Europe. This is important in the case of say Russia in which the top four browsers are Opera with 32.8%, Firefox with 30.8%, IE with 28.43% and Chrome with 5.71% (data from http://gs.statcounter.com/ http://gs.statcounter.com/) Just looking at the Firefox stats here and ignoring Opera would be highly misleading regarding viability of Theora in this market which is near 70% (assuming up-to-date browsers).
- driax 17y agoWikipedia says that: "[Opera has] 20–25% market share in Russia, 25-30% Ukraine, and 5–9% in Poland, Latvia, Lithuania, and the Czech Republic" A bit more than 0.2
- carussell 17y agoWhy rely on "Wikipedia says"? Why not attribute it to the source Wikipedia uses?