Cool Visualisation: Browser share over the last decade

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

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

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).

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

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...

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

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

Cool Visualization indeed. Completely useless, but cool.

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

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