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Mobile browser support for WOFF at 48.03 %

→While the mobile browser usage share is only at a total of 11.78% this is a rapidly expanding segment of the browser market. The introduction of iOS 5 on October 12th, 2011 marked a major turning point for WOFF on mobile devices.

As expected the introduction of iOS 5.1 catapulted WOFF support on mobile devices from a meager 0.35% to 24.15% in just two months time. The impact of Safari Mobile is mainly due to the Apple’s massive usage share.

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(Sept. 9, 2012): Usage share of all browsers →

by Hannes Famira
created Sep. 09, 2011
updated Sep. 09, 2012

Mobile/Tablet browsers supporting WOFF

Mobile usage share 100% in this graph (11.78% of the total usage share, all browsers out there)

Safari (66.43%)

48.66% WOFF support →
version 5.1 and up since October 2011

Android (20.87 %)

WOFF support →
Firefox version 5 and up since June 2011

Opera Mini

Symbian and Blackberry

Opera Mobile

0.27% WOFF support →
version 11.0 and up

mobile browser version supporting WOFF

old mobile browser version for which an update supporting woff is available

mobile browsers not supporting WOFF

Individual percentages (May 2011) courtesy of www.netmarketshare.com
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Screenshot made with iPhone4 running iOS5.

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Apple Mobile Safari for iOS devices (66.43 %)

Last updated Sept. 9, 2012

It's official, Apple has made iOS 5 available as a free update. As reported earlier it features WOFF support, lifting over half of the mobile web traffic across this—for web typography—significant threshold.
The impact of Safari Mobile is mainly due to the Apple’s massive usage share and historically, to the swift adoption rate once updates were made available in the past.