Web Development Status 2010 According to Web Directions

John Allsopp, who has been involved in CSS, web design and development for quite some time, and is one of the founders of the Web Directions conference , which focuses on web design and development, published the results of a survey on various aspects of web development.

The purpose of this survey is to look at the dry numbers of statistics, and try to consider those techniques and technologies that web designers and developers use. Over time, the authors of the survey hope to track changes in design and development for the web. The survey lasted a month, or rather, the 2010 ferval. In total, 1402 people voted. These are mainly web designers, developers, as well as people who are somehow interested in web development from Europe, North America, Australia and New Zealand.

What are the results?

What OS is used in daily work?

Which browser is used in daily work?

What features in the browser are most important?

Which browsers test written sites?

Which markup languages ​​are used?

What doctype is being announced?

Are they already using HTML5 markup?

Do they use table layout?

As you can see, 60% said that only under the pretext of death!

Which approach best fits your web design philosophy?

Which approach best suits your approach to developing cross-browser applications?

What do you use CSS most often for?

Do you use javascript?

What JavaScript frameworks and libraries do you use?

The undisputed leader is jQuery.

Do you separate JavaScript code from the main page layout code?

What type of content do you use in your applications?

What hardware are your sites hosted on?

What software does your site serve?

What OS is used on your servers?

What databases do you use?

What server-side programming languages ​​do you use?

Instead of a conclusion

It seems to me that the survey is quite extensive and touches on various aspects of web development, it is only a pity that only 1402 people took part in the vote. Still, this is not enough.
Here I have posted, in my opinion, the most important questions, but in the original there are much more.
You can look at the survey results in more detail on the Web Directions website .