Developer tools company Kendo UI said that despite concerns about the ability of HTML5 in recent months, adoption and usage is on the up for both mobile and desktop apps.

According to its first Global Developer Survey, 94 percent of respondents are “actively developing with HTML5, or plan to do so by the end of 2012”.

While HTML5 has long been positioned as the tool to deliver apps across multiple device platforms, the technology has recently seen some setbacks, such as the W3C and WHATWG standards bodies split and Facebook’s high-profile decision to replace its HTML5 app for iOS with a native version.

Kendo UI said that developers see the biggest benefits of HTML5 as the familiarity of languages (HTML, JavaScript, CSS), reach/cross platform support (62 percent) and performance (34 percent).

It also found that the 6 percent of developers who have no plans for HTML5 said that it will become important to them in 12 to 24 months – contradicting a Gartner Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies report which forecast widespread HTML5 adoption 5 to 10 years in the future.

According to the poll, in the split of the standards bodies, developers expressed a 4:1 preference for W3C, which is “known to evolve standards at a slower pace than the WHATWG”. However, 41 percent expressed no preference  over the two.

The major concern for developers remains the fragment browser market. Kendo UI said that “even as standards improve and browsers, such as Chrome, Safari, Firefox, and Internet Explorer all race to implement them, developers face varying HTML5 support in a browser landscape that spans desktop and devices”.

Kendo UI surveyed more than 4,000 developers “spanning different development environments” in September 2012.