Jun 11, 2006
Standards: You’ve Got a Long Way to Go, Baby
Web standards?!? We don’t need no stinkin’ web standards!
Some startling statistics, according to a study conducted by Rene Saarsoo on web coding practices. He (or his bot rather) combed over a million pages from sites listed in the Open Directory Project and found some disturbing trends:
- Only 39% of the pages use a valid DOCTYPE (how the hell do people miss this, most HTML programs these days insert one by default);
- A whopping 2.58% of the pages were HTML or XHTML valid;
- The fourth most common error amongst that sea of invalidity was forgetting to close a tag;
- The top five most common CSS declarations: color, font-size, font-family, text-decoration and font-weight, otherwise known as the stuff people use to style up their myspace pages.
You can check out his study here.
