30th january 2006

well i never

some great 'web authoring statistics' over on code.google.com. in google's quest to know everything in the universe that there is to know, they've studied over a billion html documents to find out what we developers are getting up to when no one is looking. for example, everyone knows that the average age of a combat soldier in vietnam was 19 (often pronounced ninininininininini nineteen), but did you know that it's also the average number of different element types found on a web page? you did? oh.

my favourite is the attributes found on our friend the "script" tag. as we all know, the "language" attribute has been deprecated since... well... ages, but how about the following attributes: "langauge", "langugage" and "languaje"? makes you wonder whether the w3c got rid of it simply because no one could spell it.

take a look at google's stats.

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