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A Statistical Review of 1 Billion Web Pages
chrisd writes "As part of a recent examination of the most popular html authoring techniques, my colleague Ian Hickson parsed through a billion web pages from the Google repository to find out what are the most popular class names, elements, attributes, and related metadata. We decided that to publish this would be of significant utility to developers. It's also a fascinating look into how people create web pages. For instance one thing that surprised me was that the <title> is more popular than <br>. The graphs in the report require a browser with SVG and CSS support (like Firefox 1.5!). Enjoy!"
I was expecting a few GOTO commands.
For Example:
IF browser="IE" GOTO Spyware
Proof by very large bribes. QED.
Web developers shouldn't aim for writing for one browser, but as many as possible.
They're doing the exact opposite of what they should be doing.
They're doing what led us into this shitty IE situation in the first place; targetting specific browsers instead of the public.
Can anyone tell me what's here that can't be visualized with GIF's?
Even if it'd mean less features for the user, they should at least graciously fall back to a more basic technology than SVG's.
How do these pages look on IE, Opera, Safari, or Konqueror under default configurations?
If this is what Google sometimes wish to do, design pages to push a specific browser, they're no better than Microsoft.
Beware: In C++, your friends can see your privates!