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Only 4.13% of the Web Is Standards-Compliant

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the i-woulda-guessed-less dept.

Death Metal writes "Browser maker Opera has published the early results of an ongoing study that aims to provide insight into the structure of Internet content. To conduct this research project, Opera created the Metadata Analysis and Mining Application (MAMA), a tool that crawls the web and indexes the markup and scripting data from approximately 3.5 million pages."

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  1. Well, that depends.... by AltGrendel · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...on which standard the designer chose.

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    1. Re:Well, that depends.... by morgan_greywolf · · Score: 5, Funny

      'Looks good in Internet Explorer and doesn't seem to crash Firefox or Opera' is not a standard.

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    2. Re:Well, that depends.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      The great thing about standards is, there's so many to choose from.

    3. Re:Well, that depends.... by theaveng · · Score: 2, Funny

      Does using make my code non-standard?

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    4. Re:Well, that depends.... by g0dsp33d · · Score: 5, Funny

      But if we completely reverse the standards we should be at 95.87% compliance!

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    5. Re:Well, that depends.... by remmelt · · Score: 4, Funny

      It sure makes your Slashdot comment non-standard!

    6. Re:Well, that depends.... by andy19 · · Score: 3, Funny

      I disagree- I'd say that's a pretty standard Slashdot comment.

    7. Re:Well, that depends.... by Bogtha · · Score: 4, Funny

      I am still trying to find the HTML tag that gives IE users an electric shock.

      Don't be silly, everybody knows you use CSS for that. (Cruelly Sadistic Styleshocks).

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    8. Re:Well, that depends.... by andy19 · · Score: 3, Funny

      Oh, well in that case, not at all.
      Both blink and marquee are two very useful tags that should be used on every website.

    9. Re:Well, that depends.... by morgan_greywolf · · Score: 2, Funny

      Unfortunately, the CSS attribute that gives IE users an electric shock is one of those that IE doesn't support.

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  2. More like by ODiV · · Score: 5, Funny

    OMG 4.13% of the Web is Standards-compliant!?

  3. <blink>really?</blink> by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Inconceivable!

  4. Re:Oh great by Yvan256 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Have you tried getting some soup lately? That's even worst.

  5. Only 4.13% of the Web Is Standards-Compliant... by no1home · · Score: 1, Funny

    The rest are designed to work with MS IE.

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