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Which size organization do you work for? Answer Count Percentage I’m a student 68 5.51% I’m a hobbyist 21 1.70% I’m a freelancer 225 18.23% Small Company (up to 10) 235 19.04% Medium Company (up to 50) 244 19.77% Large Company (up to 500) 184 14.91% Huge Company (more than 500) 231 18.72% Other 18 1.46% No answer 8 0.65% Non completed 0 0.00% Which sector do you work in? Answer Count Percentage Design Agency 319 25.85% Banking & Finance 33 2.67% Construction & Property 2 0.16% Consumer Goods 11 0.89% Engineering 16 1.30% Health 22 1.78% Industrials 2 0.16% Leisure 9 0.73% Media 129 10.45% Natural Resources 2 0.16% Retail 14 1.13% Technology 231 18.72% Telecoms 15 1.22% Transport 6 0.49% Utilities 3 0.24% Local Government 16 1.30% State/Regional Government 29 2.35% National Government 30 2.43% Charity/Not for Profit 42 3.40% Education 125 10.13% Other 169 13.70% No answer 9 0.73% Non completed 0 0.00% Which OS do you primarily use for day to day work? Answer Count Percentage Windows XP 465 37.68% Windows Vista 113 9.16% Mac OS X 10.4 65 5.27% Mac OS X 10.5 512 41.49% Linux 56 4.54% Unix 1 0.08% Other 7 0.57% No answer 5 0.41% Non completed 10 0.81% Which browser do you primarily use for day to day browsing? Answer Count Percentage IE6 15 1.22% IE7 40 3.24% IE8 3 0.24% Firefox 2 44 3.57% Firefox 3 741 60.05% Safari 2 1 0.08% Safari 3 258 20.91% Google Chrome 52 4.21% Opera 38 3.08% Other 27 2.19% No answer 5 0.41% Non completed 10 0.81% Which browsers do you test your web sites with? Answer Count Percentage IE5 53 4.29% IE6 968 78.44% IE7 1104 89.47% IE8 364 29.50% Firefox 2 604 48.95% Firefox 3 1135 91.98% Opera 616 49.92% Opera Mobile 61 4.94% Safari 2 237 19.21% Safari 3 992 80.39% Mobile Safari 259 20.99% Google Chrome 488 39.55% Which type of markup do you use? Answer Count Percentage Exclusively HTML 73 5.92% Exclusively XHTML 523 42.38% Mostly HTML, sometimes XHTML 196 15.88% Mostly XHTML, sometimes HTML 367 29.74% XML 9 0.73% Other 10 0.81% No answer 11 0.89% Non completed 45 3.65% How often do you validate your markup? Answer Count Percentage Always 454 36.79% Frequently 401 32.50% Sometimes 278 22.53% Never 41 3.32% No answer 15 1.22% Non completed 45 3.65% Which doctype do you typically declare for your pages? Answer Count Percentage none 21 1.70% HTML 4.01 strict 106 8.59% HTML 4.01 transitional 142 11.51% HTML 4.01 frameset 3 0.24% XHTML 1.01 strict 384 31.12% XHTML 1.01 transitional 425 34.44% XHTML 1.01 frameset 1 0.08% XHTML 1.1 53 4.29% HTML 5 16 1.30% Other 10 0.81% No answer 28 2.27% Non completed 45 3.65% Do you use tables for layout? Answer Count Percentage No 1046 84.76% Yes 127 10.29% No answer 16 1.30% Non completed 45 3.65% If you use any of the following HTML tags or properties, please mark them: Answer Count Percentage None 378 30.63% font 70 5.67% b 218 17.67% i 187 15.15% border 146 11.83% width 284 23.01% u 79 6.40% height 238 19.29% cellspacing 243 19.69% cellpadding 209 16.94% center 122 9.89% Do you use microformats in your markup? Answer Count Percentage Yes 429 34.76% No 512 41.49% What are microformats? 231 18.72% No answer 17 1.38% Non completed 45 3.65% Do you use RDFa in your markup? Answer Count Percentage Yes 42 3.40% No 586 47.49% What’s RDFa? 544 44.08% No answer 17 1.38% Non completed 45 3.65% Which of the following best describes your web design philosophy? Answer Count Percentage Pages should look as near to identical as possible across browsers 304 24.64% Consistency across browsers is important, but I use features supported in newer browsers provided they don’t cause problems for older browsers 708 57.37% Pages might look substantially different in different browsers, but provided they look acceptable in all browsers, consistency is of no great concern 117 9.48% No answer 9 0.73% Non completed 96 7.78% Which of the following best describes your approach to developing for multiple browsers? Answer Count Percentage I only develop for IE 3 0.24% I develop for IE first, and then make sure my pages work in other major browsers 62 5.02% I develop to W3C standards, and then work around IE 946 76.66% I develop to W3C standards and expect browsers to support these 116 9.40% No answer 11 0.89% Non completed 96 7.78% Do you typically use quirks mode when designing sites? Answer Count Percentage Yes 116 9.40% No 835 67.67% What’s quirks mode? 168 13.61% No answer 19 1.54% Non completed 96 7.78% Which of the following do you use CSS for? Answer Count Percentage Controlling fonts and text style 1112 90.11% Controlling page layout 1115 90.36% Controlling print appearance 851 68.96% Which of these types of selector do you regularly use? Answer Count Percentage HTML element selectors such as “p {}” 1027 83.23% Class selectors such as “p.classname {}” 1057 85.66% ID selectors such as “p#idname {}” 999 80.96% Descendent selectors such as “p a {}” 961 77.88% Child selectors such as “p > a {}” 337 27.31% Do you use any CSS3 or experimental CSS properties, such as CSS transitions, transforms, animations, shadows? Answer Count Percentage Yes 274 22.20% No 843 68.31% No answer 21 1.70% Non completed 96 7.78% Do you use linked fonts with the @font-face statement? Answer Count Percentage Yes 51 4.13% No 1060 85.90% No answer 27 2.19% Non completed 96 7.78% Which type of fonts do you link to? Answer Count Percentage Truetype 50 4.05% EOT 7 0.57% Do you use SVG? Answer Count Percentage No 923 74.80% A little 172 13.94% Extensively 15 1.22% No answer 28 2.27% Non completed 96 7.78% Do you use the Canvas element? Answer Count Percentage No 989 80.15% A little 111 9.00% Extensively 9 0.73% No answer 29 2.35% Non completed 96 7.78% Do you optimize your sites for devices other than laptops/PCs? Answer Count Percentage Yes 310 25.12% No 813 65.88% No answer 15 1.22% Non completed 96 7.78% Do you use JavaScript in your development? Answer Count Percentage No 65 5.27% For visual effects 902 73.10% For form validation 754 61.10% For complex application interaction 520 42.14% For Ajax communication with the server 659 53.40% Do you separate your JavaScript from your markup? Answer Count Percentage Always 477 38.65% Usually 518 41.98% No 47 3.81% No answer 82 6.65% Non completed 110 8.91% Do you strictly adhere to the W3C DOM, and avoid browser specific extensions? Answer Count Percentage Yes 375 30.39% As much as possible 613 49.68% No 53 4.29% No answer 83 6.73% Non completed 110 8.91% Which JavaScript libraries and frameworks do you use? Answer Count Percentage None 119 9.64% Backbase 2 0.16% Dojo 36 2.92% Ext 33 2.67% GWT 16 1.30% JQuery 775 62.80% Mootools 235 19.04% Prototype 287 23.26% qooxdoo 1 0.08% script.aculo.us 224 18.15% YUI 133 10.78% Other 50 4.05% Do you incorporate media into your sites that requires browser plugins to play? Answer Count Percentage Yes 774 62.72% No 339 27.47% No answer 6 0.49% Non completed 115 9.32% Which kinds of content do you use? Answer Count Percentage Flash 757 61.35% Silverlight 26 2.11% Quicktime 242 19.61% Real 25 2.03% Others 22 1.78% What do you use this kind of content for? Answer Count Percentage Audio 483 39.14% Video 729 59.08% Embedded games and other interactive applications 272 22.04% Whole sites 83 6.73% What type of hardware do your sites run on? Answer Count Percentage Dedicated servers managed by you or your company 433 35.09% Dedicated co-located servers 189 15.32% Shared servers 368 29.82% Don’t know 62 5.02% Other 40 3.24% No answer 17 1.38% Non completed 125 10.13% What server software is used to serve your sites? Answer Count Percentage Apache 849 68.80% IIS 280 22.69% GWS 5 0.41% lighthttpd 68 5.51% Don’t know 115 9.32% Other 81 6.56% Which operating system(s) do your servers run? Answer Count Percentage Linux 725 58.75% Unix 206 16.69% Windows 343 27.80% Mac OS X 69 5.59% Don’t know 113 9.16% Other 26 2.11% What database systems do you use? Answer Count Percentage none 42 3.40% MySQL 869 70.42% Microsoft SQL Server 271 21.96% Oracle 113 9.16% PostgreSQL 128 10.37% Other 80 6.48% Which programming languages do you use? Answer Count Percentage ASP 144 11.67% ASP.NET 208 16.86% ColdFusion 88 7.13% Java 152 12.32% JavaScript 680 55.11% Perl 103 8.35% PHP 778 63.05% Python 187 15.15% Ruby 178 14.42% None 43 3.48% Other 43 3.48% Which back-end frameworks do you use for development? Answer Count Percentage None 367 29.74% CakePHP 75 6.08% CherryPy 3 0.24% Django 133 10.78% Ext GWT 4 0.32% Ruby on Rails 164 13.29% Struts 23 1.86% Zend framework 79 6.40% Developed internally 241 19.53% Other 199 16.13%