Data on SVG?
At SVG Open 2007 Zach Zhou of Qualcomm reported that (I think) 300 million cell phones had chipsets aboard that were SVG-enabled. Of course this doesn't mean that they are running SVG since some manufacturers have not taken advantage of that capability. Overall, cell phone growth went from 3.5 billion to 5 billion customers between 2008Q4 and 2010Q2 [1], being at about 2.2 billion in 20071Q [2]. There were about three times as many cell phones as PC's according to the same source, and that number appears to be growing. And overall adoption of SVG would appear to have grown as well during the same time frame. Does anyone have a more up-to-date estimate (using any methodology) that might allow me to triangulate on current numbers? Another question: any statistics on the number of actual web documents in SVG format? The number of Google documents containing the string "SVG" (which is predominantly related to "our" SVG with a fun sprinkling of St. Vincent & Grenadines and other distracters) has increased from 3.75 million to 86 million since 2005, but this is a relatively crude measure, owing to increased frequency of changes in Google's search techniques I think [3]. Changes in the number of PC's running SVG is largely driven by adoption of IE9, and that is looking good for SVG [4], with Microsoft reporting its adoption rate being five times higher than for IE8. NetMarketShare [5] reports IE9 now to be used by more than 4% of users (but still below IE8, IE6 and IE7 in that order), though that source's statistics appear to be a bit more US-centric than others that show for example IE and FF running neck and neck in Europe. Perhaps the Zeitgeist of knowing that SVG is now on its way to ubiquity is helping authors to abandon some of their longstanding skepticism about SVG being a tech-geeky thing for "off-brand browsers." Someone like Gartner group must have prepared better estimates wouldn't you think? Certainly internal research by Google, Microsoft, Apple etc. would know these things, but has anything dribbled out for us common folk to use? Thanks in advance David [1] http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/10569081 [2] http://news.cnet.com/Emerging-markets-fuel-cell-phone-growth/2100-1039_3-615 9491.html [3] http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1414614 [4] http://www.webpronews.com/ie9-adoption-rate-2011-04 [5] http://marketshare.hitslink.com/browser-market-share.aspx?spider=1 <http://marketshare.hitslink.com/browser-market-share.aspx?spider=1&qprid=2> &qprid=2 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ ----- To unsubscribe send a message to: [email protected] -or- visit http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers and click "edit my membership" ----Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
