On 06/09/13 17:48, Marcos Caceres wrote:
On Friday, September 6, 2013 at 5:36 PM, Neil Harris wrote:
On 06/09/13 16:34, Gervase Markham wrote:
Data! Sounds like a plan.
Or we could ask our friends at Google or some other search engine to run
a version of our detector over their index and see how often it says
"UTF-8" when our normal algorithm would say something else.
Gerv
This website has an interesting, and apparently up-to-date set of
statistics:
Wait a minute, they also claim that XHTML is used on 54.9% of sites? I'm
skeptical of their methodology. See:
http://w3techs.com/technologies/overview/markup_language/all
On reading that, that surprised me too.
However, that doesn't seem too far from this site's estimate for the
same thing:
http://try.powermapper.com/Stats/HtmlVersions
Presumably most of that XHTML is being generated by automated tools
whose authors assumed that XHTML represented the "latest and greatest"
HTML spec, and who it seems are now in the process of transitioning to
the new latest-and-greatest, HTML 5, as shown by the rising tide of HTML
5 in the above graph.
-- Neil
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