I’m breaking the blogging silence for a bit to share the results of a survey I conducted over the last few days. I didn’t actually plan on publishing anything at first but since people shared a few seconds of time answering the survey, it’s only proper that I share the results.

A Background

I needed some data for something I was working on, specifically what browsers JavaScript devs considered to be their primary development browser. I decided the best way to do it would be to conduct a very simple survey, so I crafted one with two questions:

1. Which of the following browsers do you consider your main development browser?
2. Do you use MooTools as part of your development arsenal?

The first one was the real question for this simple survey, and the answer could be one of six choices:

• Firefox
• Chrome
• Internet Explorer
• Opera
• Safari
• Other

The second question was actually just a qualifier and doesn’t really have any bearing to the survey. I intended the original survey to be for MooTools developers only, but since I knew that it would take me a really long time to get my quota filled with just MooTools developers, I decided to make it more inclusive. The second question was meant as a flag for me to know whether my survey was reaching a bigger audience than I originally intended.

The Results

The total number of respondents were 300 people. Here’s the breakdown:

• Firefox: 55% (166)
• Chrome: 32% (96)
• Safari: 10% (30)
• Opera: 2% (6)
• IE: 1% (2)
• Other: 0% (0)

Note that I didn’t include the results from the second question nor did I correlate them. Like I said, it was only a qualifier question.

Since this was a very informal survey, I can’t claim that the results are actually representative of the general landscape. However, it did satify my curiosity and surprise me a bit. I was expecting Chrome and Safari to have a bigger share of users than what they received, but it seems that my respondents were largely Firefox users.

And with that, I’m off!