On Wed, January 16, 2008 11:04 pm, ryan wrote: > On Jan 16, 2008, at 12:41 AM, Kevin Burton wrote: > >> Has anyone done any large scale audits of XHTML in the wild to >> determine the percentage that parse correctly? > > Yes, Ian Hickson at Google did a survey of about 1B pages and found > that over 90% had *well-formedness* errors. I can't find a reference > off hand, but it maybe buried somewhere in [#webstats]. >
Ian Hickson's study at <http://code.google.com/webstats/index.html> links to studies by Marko Karppinen (2002) <http://www.markokarppinen.com/20020222.html> and Evan Goer (2003) <http://www.goer.org/Journal/2003/04/the_xhtml_100.html> both of which suggest that anyone expecting to find much well-formed XHTML on the web is doomed to disappointment. I can't imagine that things have got any better since :-( HTH, Nick. -- Nick Fitzsimons http://www.nickfitz.co.uk/ _______________________________________________ microformats-discuss mailing list microformats-discuss@microformats.org http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss