Comments on: Web Authoring Statistics http://www.maxdesign.com.au/2006/01/27/web-authoring-statistics/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 22:31:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.5 By: Nick http://www.maxdesign.com.au/2006/01/27/web-authoring-statistics/comment-page-1/#comment-59 Nick Thu, 09 Feb 2006 08:09:50 +0000 http://www.maxdesign.com.au/2006/01/27/web-authoring-statistics/#comment-59 I find it interesting that so much presentational markup is still to be found around the web. It's now almost ten years since CSS1 first became a W3C Recommendation. While I suppose some of based on legacy material, I wonder how much it relates to the slow up-take of standards in web browsers, and the intricacies involved in effectively seperating content and presentation? In fact, the use of SVG to display the charts and graphs is a classic example of slow uptake. I currently can't view that site using IE (although I know I haven't installed the SVG viewer), and I know someone who installed the latest IE SVG viewer and still could not view the site using IE. I find it interesting that so much presentational markup is still to be found around the web. It’s now almost ten years since CSS1 first became a W3C Recommendation.

While I suppose some of based on legacy material, I wonder how much it relates to the slow up-take of standards in web browsers, and the intricacies involved in effectively seperating content and presentation?

In fact, the use of SVG to display the charts and graphs is a classic example of slow uptake. I currently can’t view that site using IE (although I know I haven’t installed the SVG viewer), and I know someone who installed the latest IE SVG viewer and still could not view the site using IE.

]]> By: David McDonald http://www.maxdesign.com.au/2006/01/27/web-authoring-statistics/comment-page-1/#comment-34 David McDonald Mon, 30 Jan 2006 04:55:19 +0000 http://www.maxdesign.com.au/2006/01/27/web-authoring-statistics/#comment-34 Great to see <a href="http://westciv.typepad.com/dog_or_higher/2005/11/real_world_sema.html" rel="nofollow">John Allsopp's work</a> referenced by Google! On the <a href="http://code.google.com/webstats/2005-12/editors.html" rel="nofollow">Editors and Their Custom Markup</a> page, they refer to etc tags, saying they are not sure where they come from. They actually appear when you save a Word doc as HTML, and they are the dreaded Microsof <a href="http://www.alistapart.com/articles/smarttags/" rel="nofollow">Smart Tags</a>. Great to see John Allsopp’s work referenced by Google!

On the Editors and Their Custom Markup page, they refer to etc tags, saying they are not sure where they come from. They actually appear when you save a Word doc as HTML, and they are the dreaded Microsof Smart Tags.

]]> By: Nick Cowie http://www.maxdesign.com.au/2006/01/27/web-authoring-statistics/comment-page-1/#comment-33 Nick Cowie Mon, 30 Jan 2006 03:00:32 +0000 http://www.maxdesign.com.au/2006/01/27/web-authoring-statistics/#comment-33 Russ My favourite is that the number of pages with a least one table element is twice the number of pages with a td element. Russ

My favourite is that the number of pages with a least one table element is twice the number of pages with a td element.

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