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When it comes to web devel op ment technologies, the big stories are CSS3, web fonts and HTML5.
- More respondents (45%) than not (44%) use CSS3 and experimental CSS, up dramatically from last year (only 22% then were using CSS3 and nearly 70% not)
- Last survey, only 4% were using font link ing using @font-face. This survey that's climbed to 23%
- HTML5 is now used to some extent by around 30% of respondents, up from under 10% last survey
- Few respondents use any form of Internet Explorer for their day to day web use, but IE8 is the num ber one browser devel op ers test their sites in.
- Google Chrome has jumped dramatically as the browser of choice for devel op ers, to rank 3rd, at 17% just behind Safari at 20%.
- Firefox remains the number one choice by some way, but respon dents were split between 3.5 and 3.6 at the time of our survey.
- Firefox 3.6 was released only a week before the survey began.
- Over half of respondents now use Mac OS X as their primary operating system.
- Nearly a third of respondents (up from 16%) use Mobile Safari, while Android use is at around 4%.
- JQuery has become even more dominant, with nearly 80% of all respondents using the library, up from 63% last year.
- Desktop-??like application frame works, such as Cappuccino and SproutCore show little sign of wide spread adoption by developers. Perhaps the day of desktop-??like web apps is yet to come, or perhaps developers really aren't look ing to build webapps which mimic the desktop.
