Cool Visualisation: Browser share over the last decade(michaelvandaniker.com)

23 pointsby Torn17 lat temu12 comments

Cool Visualisation: Browser share over the last decade

http://www.michaelvandaniker.com/labs/browserVisualization/

10 comments

zakj17 lat temu

Previous discussion here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=990136

Torn17 lat temu

Tip: you can click on the legend to show/hide various browsers.

Bonus: Chart just firefox and IEs --- the image looks like the FireFox logo :) http://imgur.com/mldh8.png

tjic17 lat temu

It's a bar graph with a distort applied to it.

The side effect of that is that it improperly scales the newer data vs. the older data, conflating graphic design and data representation (introducing bogus data).

Retric17 lat temu

Yes, it's suposed to look like the Firefox logo.

jqueryin17 lat temu

Is it just me or does it look an awful lot like the firefox logo?

tjic17 lat temu

I see it.

Interesting ... I wonder if that's an intentional Easter egg?

harpastum17 lat temu

There's the blog post that goes along with the visualization [1] (although the server appears to be pretty slow right now). It's not so much about the data, but how the graphing framework itself works. Pretty interesting stuff.

[1] http://michaelvandaniker.com/blog/2009/10/31/visualizing-his...

philfreo17 lat temu

This data is also based on visitors to w3schools.com, which certainly isn't a typical demographic of US or world visitors.

kgosser17 lat temu

It goes to show how stubborn IE6 is at dying. Corporate lock-in for the win! http://reason.com/archives/1996/06/01/typing-errors

brazzy17 lat temu

Cool Visualization indeed. Completely useless, but cool.

dmnd17 lat temu

And still none of those browsers can display this visualisation without a plugin.

Mz17 lat temu

If you hover over a given line, it gives month, year, and percentage.