Yes you read it right, only about 4% of the Web is Standards compliant! That is a staggering less than 1 in 20, certainly much less than what I expected.
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. Thanks Opera, that's a handy little tool for developers and designers alike.
As much as we develop our sites to W3C Standards, the problem is with specific web browsers as each has its own quirks, bugs and specific features. Ultimately the site must render and behave consistently across browsers, so we develop with this aim.
The Opera study reveals an interesting evolutionary feature of the internet. The good news is that upcoming IE 8.0 will be much more standards compliant, potentially Google's Chrome, with its app-centric design, will change the playing field. Unfortunately, there is the issue of maintaining backwards compatibility.
Read the source article here or direct to Opera's MAMA Key Findings.
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