The State of Web Development 2006/2007 One can only postulate on whether the users of these tools are less standards-savvy than their"guru" counterparts because theyre unaware of the benefits that can be gained from building with web standards, or because standards are just not a priority for them. Sometimes he culture of an organization is such that standards compliance is seen as involving unne- cessary overheads, even if the developers are pushing for it Despite the fact that these tools offer increasing support for web standards, developers appear to be making little use of these features at present. There may be some opportunities here for publishers on the topics of Visual Studio and Dreamweaver, although this depends largely on whether the reason for the negative correlation is a lack of education or simply a matter of priorities As an aside, I'm quite amazed at the high number of respondents who indicated that their nt is a text editor. While I'm personally not a fan of graph ical environments, I consider an IDE that has good debugging and code completion as an Question 3: Which server platform(s) do you develop for? As shown in Figure 2, the responses to this question indicate that more than two-thirds of the survey respondents are developing in PHP, making it by far the most common platform among respondents Classic ASP was second highest, with 20%of respondents still using the technology even though it's now over five years old Figure 2. Breakdown of server platform used by respondents 67.549% 1570% 1392 9.79% python Ruby Static HTK AyP Cassic ASP ASPNET 1.1 ASPNET 2.D ColdFusion Java//SP To help interpret the overall picture, we provide a breakdown of the respondents who use PHP; as Figure 3 shows, the percentage of PhP developers who also use any of the Microsoft environments is significant Copyright o 2006, Site Point and Ektron. Purchase the full report today!The State of Web Development 2006/2007 One can only postulate on whether the users of these tools are less standards-savvy than their “guru” counterparts because they’re unaware of the benefits that can be gained from building with web standards, or because standards are just not a priority for them. Sometimes the culture of an organization is such that standards compliance is seen as involving unne￾cessary overheads, even if the developers are pushing for it. Despite the fact that these tools offer increasing support for web standards, developers appear to be making little use of these features at present. There may be some opportunities here for publishers on the topics of Visual Studio and Dreamweaver, although this depends largely on whether the reason for the negative correlation is a lack of education or simply a matter of priorities. As an aside, I’m quite amazed at the high number of respondents who indicated that their primary development environment is a text editor. While I’m personally not a fan of graph￾ical environments, I consider an IDE that has good debugging and code completion as an essential development tool. Question 3: Which server platform(s) do you develop for? As shown in Figure 2, the responses to this question indicate that more than two-thirds of the survey respondents are developing in PHP, making it by far the most common platform among respondents. Classic ASP was second highest, with 20% of respondents still using the technology even though it’s now over five years old. Figure 2. Breakdown of server platform used by respondents To help interpret the overall picture, we provide a breakdown of the respondents who use PHP; as Figure 3 shows, the percentage of PHP developers who also use any of the Microsoft environments is significant. Copyright © 2006, SitePoint and Ektron. Purchase the full report today! 9