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the obvious problem is that it's going to take a generation of browsers before everyone has native <canvas> support along with a respectable Javascript engine.
by adatta02 17y ago
the obvious problem is that it's going to take a generation of browsers before everyone has native <canvas> support along with a respectable Javascript engine.
IE6 market share is still 17% with IE7 at ~25% (source: http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp)
I can't imagine advanced Processing/JS is going to run well without native canvas and SpiderMonkey/V8/Squirrelfish
- replicatorblog 17y agoGreat point, this is still very much a "the future is here, but not widely distributed yet" moment, but such great geek eye candy.
- DougBTX 17y agoSince those are the stats for w3schools.com itself, I assume they are biased quite strongly towards web developers. For a more inclusive picture, try this: http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser_version-ww-daily-20080701-20090503 http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser_version-ww-daily-20080701... I particularly like how uniform the IE6 line is, suggesting a large percentage of the users are office-bound. Also, have a look at Excanvas, which takes advantage of IE6's reasonable VML support to emulate the <canvas> tag. Quite impressive for such an old browser.
- Jakob 17y agoYes, IE6 (60%) and 7 (20%) make up 80%(!) of the browsers in business (Forrester research, April 30th 2009, http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Web-Services-Web-20-and-SOA/Microsoft-IE-Tops-in-Enterprise-Firefox-and-Chrome-Gaining-Forrester-490377/ http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Web-Services-Web-20-and-SOA/Microso...) But the JavaScript voodoo to "upgrade" IE6 is getting better and better.
- lunchbox 17y agoAlso note the periodicity of the Firefox and IE curves -- looks like a lot of people use IE6 during the week and Firefox during the weekend.