The state of the Web Standards
isn’t very good, according to Google’s analysis of 1 billion pages.
tableandbrtags are heavily used (and almost certainly are presentationally),- Most pages don’t use
class, but those that do use them in a way that suggests new html elements could be useful,, - there’s loads of Microsoft-generated crap everywhere.
Mind you, if the web standards brigade shake our heads in sorrow, the Semantic Web gang must be sobbing into their beer and phoning the Samaritans.
Yeah, it’s fascinating reading, isn’t it.
And by fascinating, I mean slightly saddening. Still, I suppose we have no previous data to look at the improvement.
There is an improvement, right?
January 27th, 2006 at 12:21 pm
The report mentions that the
titletag is heavily used - but it’d be nice to know how many merely contain the words “Untitled document” …January 27th, 2006 at 12:56 pm
Close on 45 million (44,800,000) would be my guess:
http://www.google.com/search?as_q=Untitled+Document&as_occt=title
January 27th, 2006 at 4:49 pm
Disappointing, but still, the 1 billion pages probably includes a whole raft of old pages that people had forgotten about or intend to redesign at some point.
January 29th, 2006 at 11:10 pm