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I'm not sure what you mean by "WebKit won on mobile" (maybe you mean in US) but you may be interested to know that the most popular mobile browser is Opera [1].

I'm not sure what you mean by "WebKit won on mobile" (maybe you mean in US) but you may be interested to know that the most popular mobile browser is Opera [1]. WebKit still has a majority when you combine iPhone, Android and Nokias but I wouldn't say it's won. The race for the mobile web isn't over yet. [1] http://www.quirksmode.org/blog/archives/2012/01/browser_stats_f_2.html http://www.quirksmode.org/blog/archives/2012/01/browser_stat...

rplnt 15y ago
The Opera's dominance would probably be higher if most of the stats wouldn't come from US.
- sambeau 15y ago
  Webkit is twice as prevalent compared to Opera even when using his linked statistics.
  - rplnt 15y ago
    One is browser and one is rendering engine. But yes, this discussion is about the latter. I was just commenting on his post. Still, these stats are very inaccurate in what we're using them for.
sambeau 15y ago
Opera is not the most popular mobile browser. If you look at the graph he links to they compare Opera to Android, iPhone, iPod Touch separately despite all being Webkit based. Add them up and you have around 43% well more than the 18% shown for Opera. If you look at the table you linked to Android plus Mobile Safari also gives 44%. Opera has 22%.
- dave1010uk 15y ago
  Using these stats, Opera is the most popular mobile browser but WebKit is the most popular mobile browser rendering engine / framework. Whilst WebKit being > 50% of rendering engines definitely counts for something, my point is that non-WebKit browsers account for a very significant chunk of the mobile web. From PPK again: http://www.quirksmode.org/blog/archives/2009/10/there_is_no_web.html http://www.quirksmode.org/blog/archives/2009/10/there_is_no_...
azakai 15y ago
> I'm not sure what you mean by "WebKit won on mobile" (maybe you mean in US) Aside from low-end phones in the far east, WebKit dominates in the mobile space. In the US and Europe, there are basically two smartphone OSes: Android and iOS, everything else is tiny. And Android and iOS both use WebKit. So WebKit won.

rplnt 15y ago

The Opera's dominance would probably be higher if most of the stats wouldn't come from US.

sambeau 15y ago
Webkit is twice as prevalent compared to Opera even when using his linked statistics.
- rplnt 15y ago
  One is browser and one is rendering engine. But yes, this discussion is about the latter. I was just commenting on his post. Still, these stats are very inaccurate in what we're using them for.

sambeau 15y ago

Opera is not the most popular mobile browser. If you look at the graph he links to they compare Opera to Android, iPhone, iPod Touch separately despite all being Webkit based. Add them up and you have around 43% well more than the 18% shown for Opera. If you look at the table you linked to Android plus Mobile Safari also gives 44%. Opera has 22%.

dave1010uk 15y ago
Using these stats, Opera is the most popular mobile browser but WebKit is the most popular mobile browser rendering engine / framework. Whilst WebKit being > 50% of rendering engines definitely counts for something, my point is that non-WebKit browsers account for a very significant chunk of the mobile web. From PPK again: http://www.quirksmode.org/blog/archives/2009/10/there_is_no_web.html http://www.quirksmode.org/blog/archives/2009/10/there_is_no_...

azakai 15y ago

> I'm not sure what you mean by "WebKit won on mobile" (maybe you mean in US) Aside from low-end phones in the far east, WebKit dominates in the mobile space. In the US and Europe, there are basically two smartphone OSes: Android and iOS, everything else is tiny. And Android and iOS both use WebKit. So WebKit won.