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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.

Useless trivia-that-means-absolutely-nothing-unless-you’re-bored-and-unemployed: I was retooling my page to make it XHTML-compliant yesterday. What does that mean?  Well, according to the World Wide Web Consortium, it’s because of two reasons…
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