Re: Survey on SVG barriers of adoption

Hi David,

Thanks for setting up the survey.

In the graphics tool section you could add a couple more:

* OpenOffice DRAW - from version to version I hope that SVG support 
improves - however, always disappointed ...
* Microsoft Visio - also seems quite popular for creating certain types 
of charts/diagrams
* Xara

The section "What is your biggest barrier to adopting SVG?" appears 
twice in my browser ...

I think the idea to use some rating in the section "What is your biggest 
barrier to adopting SVG?" is good. For most people it is several points 
on the list with different priorities.

In the RIA technologies section one could add some of the popular Ajax 
toolkits? e.g. dojo, yahoo ui, etc.

Thanks,
Andreas

David Storey wrote:
>
> 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
>
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>
>

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