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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."

4 of 406 comments (clear)

  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 g0dsp33d · · Score: 5, Funny

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

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

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