gaining with web developers

It looks like Gecko's finally starting to pick up some real steam with web developers as measured by w3schools.

If you add in the couple percentage points from Opera, non-IE browsers are more than 1/5th of the w3schools readership. Not bad at all!

We're switftly approaching the Firefox 1.0 release and it's then, I believe, that we can expect to see more traditional browser users start to mirror this web developer trend line.

What's the magic number? How many web developers do we need and how quickly do we need them if we're going to stave off the proprietarization of the web, and will Opera and Safari help us get there?

What are your thoughts on browser stats or web development trends?

update: I got a somewhat rude email asking me how I came up with these stats so I thought I'd just post here and pre-empt any further emails (I hope). I added together the Mozilla and Netscape 7 numbers and added together the IE 6 and IE 5 numbers. Then I messed up and posted the wrong starting numbers. I'll be correcting that shortly but until I do, it's Gecko: 7.20% Opera: 1.70% and IE: 87.20% from July of last year. Sorry 'bout that. Opera has indeed made a larger gain in the last year than this graph suggested.

update 2: I've corrected the image.

update 3: I've replaced the image with a less colorful one since this post got slashdotted.