http://www.metafilter.com/tags/webdirections Posts tagged with 'webdirections' at MetaFilter. Mon, 12 Jan 2009 04:25:52 -0800 Mon, 12 Jan 2009 04:25:52 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/78198/The%2DState%2Dof%2Dthe%2DWeb%2D2008 <a href="http://www.webdirections.org/the-state-of-the-web-2008/">The State of the Web 2008</a> is a report from <a href="http://www.webdirections.org/">Web Directions</a> that includes details and analysis of all the responses to over 50 questions covering technologies, techniques, philosophies and practices that today’s web professionals employ. The survey was open for just under 3 weeks, from December 1st to 20th 2008. In total, over 1200 designers and developers from around the world responded to the survey. Respondents were likely to be self-educating, “early adopters” who keep abreast of developments in their field. Here are the <a href="http://www.webdirections.org/the-state-of-the-web-2008/state-of-the-web-just-the-results/">tabular results</a>. <strong>In short, what did the survey find? Some quite surprising results include:</strong> <ul> <li> just how few of the respondents use any form of Internet Explorer for their day to day web use (with only 3 out of over 1200 respondents using IE8), and similarly how few use Google Chrome as their primary browser, despite the splash the launch of that browser recently <li> nearly half of respondents use Mac OS X as their primary operating system, and only 10% use Windows Vista <li> less than a third of respondents test their web sites with Internet Explorer 8 (while Mobile Safari comes in at 20%, and Chrome at 40%) </li></li></li></ul> There’s also a great deal of interest in terms of the nitty-gritty of web design philosophy and practice, from the high percentage of respondents who use JavaScript (around 95%), to the very small uptake of Silverlight (around 2% of all respondents) to the very high percentage of database driven sites (96%), overwhelmingly run on open source databases (over 80%). The number of responses, 1234 total, and the results themselves definitely provide both food for thought, and in many cases, cause for optimism that web development best practices are becoming more widely adopted over time. <a href="http://www.webdirections.org/about/">Web Directions</a> conducts two major conferences annually in Sydney, Australia and Vancouver, Canada, and covers the full range of interests for web professionals - web design, front-end and and back-end development, information architecture, interaction design, accessibility, data visualization and much more. Their more focused conferences home in on specific areas and segments, as seen from their <a href="http://www.webdirections.org/resources/">podcasts, slides, and other presentation materials</a>. tag:metafilter.com,2009:site.78198 Mon, 12 Jan 2009 04:25:52 -0800 browsers designers developers html javascript standards stateoftheweb usability webapps webdirections xhtml xml netbros