Re: Survey on SVG barriers of adoption

On 9 Mar 2009, at 19:45, Doug Schepers wrote:

> Hi, David-
>
> David Storey wrote (on 3/9/09 1:48 PM):
>>
>> I'm developing a survey on the barriers of adoption for SVG. A in
>> development version can be found at
>> http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?hl=en&formkey=cDJWdHhMYjFuY2tpRmFDcmZNQWUxWXc6MA 
>> ..
>
> (Typo: "OmniGraffel" -> "OmniGraffle").

Thanks
>
>> Has such a survey been made before, and are there any questions you'd
>> suggest adding to the form? I suspect the biggest reason given for
>> barrier to adoption will be lack of IE support, but that is a good
>> thing, ref Chris Wilsons’s tweet:
>> http://twitter.com/cwilso/status/1224886461
>>
>> Thoughts?
>
> I don't know of such a survey, and it's a great idea.  My  
> assumption, based on lots of anecdotal feedback, is that the 3  
> biggest barriers are:
>
> * no support in IE
> * lack of comprehensive authoring tools (not just static exports  
> from Illustrator/CorelDraw/Inkscape, but development and animation  
> tools)
> * they've never heard of it.

I expect the same too, but it is good to have it in writing in large  
numbers (if possible).  Good point regarding the animation stuff in  
tools.  That is something that is important as static stuff is trivial  
to export (even if the code isn't great), but Flash like stuff at the  
moment has to be done by hand.  I didn't make that explicit in the  
survey, so will adjust that.
>
> But I'll be very interested in survey reports that say otherwise.   
> FWIW, I think you should lay out the latter 2 points more explicitly/ 
> completely in your survey.

Will look into it.
>
> I will certainly help promote such a survey.  What's your intended  
> methodology to get respondents?  Do you have a channel to get a wide  
> variety of samples?

I know a fair amount of people, so I've a few channels I'd like to get  
it out on.  I want to mostly focus real world developers that don't  
really use SVG yet, which is why I ask at the start what their  
experience level is.  I don't want the results swayed by the already  
converted - who are more likely to find out about the survey - we  
should be able to filter the results based on the experience level.

I plan to get it out via things like:

* Twitter
* Opera.com/developer or my.opera.com/odin
* Ask people in my team and influential designer focused bloggers to  
post about it (such as Jon Hicks, Molly Holzschlag etc)
* Ask people that have done developer surveys in the past like John  
Allsopp/Web Directions and ALA to promote it.
* Get my team to mention it at conferences and SxSWi

any other suggestions?

>
> (BTW, the initiative you're showing is great... this is exactly the  
> sort of thing the SVG IG needs.)
>
> Regards-
> -Doug Schepers
> W3C Team Contact, SVG and WebApps WGs

David Storey

Chief Web Opener / Product Manager, Opera Presto / Product Manager,  
Opera Dragonfly
W3C WG:  Mobile Web Best Practices / SVG Interest Group

Opera Software ASA, Oslo, Norway
Mobile: +47 94 22 02 32

Received on Monday, 9 March 2009 19:06:43 UTC