Opera Market Share

April 18, 2009 · by Espen André Øverdahl

Opera's Chief Web Opener, David Storey, has with SVG created a map of Opera market share in Eastern and Central Europe. It's really cool and completely written by hand. This is a great practical demonstration how SVG and Web technology can be used as a great replacement for flash, for example.

As far as the data is concerned, David took the market share values from the StatCounter results for April (at the time of writing).

You can read more in his blog; Slightly Ajar

Readers' comments 17

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ruamanSaturday, April 18, 2009 6:40:55 PM
Charles SchlossSaturday, April 18, 2009 8:51:21 PM
http://files.myopera.com/Tamil/Smilies/Happy.gif -
TamilSunday, April 19, 2009 12:11:33 AM
http://files.myopera.com/Tamil/Smilies/Happy.gif -
jonparSunday, April 19, 2009 3:48:12 AM
for some time now, i am asking why is opera translated is languages with a very small number of speakers, and not in some with serious number of speakers, an important number of internet users, and very high speed internet networks
i can't see why Opera ignores Romania
Lars KleinschmidtSunday, April 19, 2009 11:27:18 AM
jonpar, translations are done by volunteers. so it's probably that just no romanian volunteered to do it
David StoreySunday, April 19, 2009 12:04:27 PM
We do have a Romanian translator now (I've just recently joined the group myself to help out with the British English translation - no more Zs I hope, and power to the Us ), so hopefully we will have a Romanian translation. Romania is a very big country in terms of population and internet users, so I hope it will help us convince users to switch to Opera.
Shane BundySunday, April 19, 2009 12:33:29 PM
I can't view this SVG properly. It appears as a big red blob.
KarenSunday, April 19, 2009 1:24:32 PM
w00t!
David StoreySunday, April 19, 2009 2:04:47 PM
operabaker: You are using the wrong browser It does that in Firefox. I'm trying to work out why, but I'm not sure yet. I've already worked out how to fix it in Safari (HSLA and HSL are not suppose to be supported in SVG - although it seems a bug that Safari would replace the original colour with black when not understanding it.
kalaghSunday, April 19, 2009 3:01:33 PM
ELasherSunday, April 19, 2009 5:05:28 PM
What does it do? For me, parts of it are clickable, but nothing happens when I click. Meanwhile, the percentage thing on the left changes periodically, but not in relation to anything I do. That doesn't seem like a good replacement for flash to me.
Charles SchlossSunday, April 19, 2009 8:08:13 PM
dstorey does ff have as much svg support as Opera?
Shane BundySunday, April 19, 2009 9:13:50 PM
@dstorey: I use Opera on my laptop and Firefox at home. Thanks for pointing that out.
HaavardMonday, April 20, 2009 9:50:34 AM
Chas4:

http://www.codedread.com/svg-support.php

It seems that Firefox is approaching 70%, while Opera has passed 90% support according to that table.

I haven't looked up his methodology (seems to be using the W3C SVG test suite), but I guess it gives a hint at least.
johannes96Monday, April 20, 2009 11:35:49 AM
vote for opera =like) http://alternativeto.net/AlternativesToItem.aspx?profile=software&itemid=88cd2c1e-a5cb-41f7-866e-a1c082e9d027&license=any&platform=software
David StoreyMonday, April 20, 2009 12:33:59 PM
123456789_10: It is just a quick demo I set up in my spare time while messing around with SVG. The animation is just set on a timer, and has no relation to clicking around. Things can happen when you click things if you want them too, but there is no support for that in the demo. I'd like to eventually show the market share when you click the country, or zoom into the country in question. I've not written the support for that yet though.
David StoreyMonday, April 20, 2009 12:36:57 PM
Haavard: The Code Dread percentage is based on the percentage of tests in the SVG 1.1 (or maybe 1.0) that the engine in question passes.

The issue in FF seems to be some bug in supporting stroke-dasharray, in that it is ignoring the dash offset. Either that or I'm doing something wrong with it, and it just happens that Safari and Opera agree, and render it like I expect.