Published by Ewan Spence at 12:44 UTC, December 15th 2010
Over on A List Apart, Peter-Paul Koch is taking a closer look at one of the current key elements of the modern smartphone, the web browser. Pulling numbers from the Stat-Counter Service, he not only points out that the leading browser is Opera, but that Nokia’s web-kit effort is sitting nicely on 17% of the global market, compared to Opera and Safari on 22% and Blackberry on 19%. Android, by comparison, is on 11%. What does that mean for website designers?
Koch writes regularly on website design, and the distortion of the actual market share when compared to the media fuelled ‘battles’ is central to this discussion on mobile browsers:
Most web designers and developers (not to mention the entire blogosphere) fall squarely in the high-end market. A cultural bias exists against OSs aimed at any other market. As a result, most people focus on the struggle between iOS and Android, and ignore the rest. This has to change.
The rest of Koch’s thoughts can be found at A List Apart.
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