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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. Re:Some standards are just too strict... by flynt · · Score: 0, Troll


    tabbed paradigm

    Who do you think you are?
    Surely not Kuhn
    You probably thought it deep
    When Neo said "no spoon"

    I'd finish this poem
    but there's no word to rhyme
    with so pretentious a concept
    as 'tabbed paradigm'

  2. Re:Try this. by billcopc · · Score: 1, Troll

    There's nothing subtle and inoffensive about telling someone to change their browser.

    What if everytime you stopped at a gas station, the attendant said "Your Ford sucks, why don't you go visit the Toyota dealership down the road, where my brother Ackbar works"... I would choke that little he-bitch!

    People who use IE are often quite happy with it. They don't need to be beaten over the head with Firefox ads.

    --
    -Billco, Fnarg.com