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A Statistical Review of 1 Billion Web Pages

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the demanding-a-recount dept.

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!"

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  1. I used to work with Ian Hickson by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    He is a really funny and witty guy, but he had a really nasty habit of picking his nose and eating the booger at meetings. This really grossed people out. When he was told his habit was offensive, he later began eating his own feces at meetings. Still a wonderful guy!

  2. Strangely... by Billosaur · · Score: -1, Troll
    Note: You will need a browser with SVG and CSS support to view the result graphs correctly. We recommend Firefox 1.5.

    And running Firefox 1.5, I can't see any of the graphs... Hmmmmm...

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  3. Worst use of SVG ever by Seanasy · · Score: -1, Troll

    Really, what's the point of using SVG for these images? To slow down the rendering? Their not interactive or dynamic in any way that I can tell. I don't need to scale them to poster size and I doubt anyone else will, either. They could have just use PNGs with transparency if they wanted thumb their noses at IE.

  4. Just to clarify... by jonasj · · Score: 0, Troll

    What I mean by spreading FUD is that your comment implies that Firefox's support for SVG is not as good as Seamonkey's, when it is in fact exactly the same. Also, I'm not trying to start a Seamonkey vs. Firefox flamewar here.

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