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  24. # [02:53] <Philip`> http://canvex.lazyilluminati.com/misc/stats/ - some totally rough data - it could be nice to collect more types of data and then do this on lots of pages
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  50. # [10:00] <hsivonen> http://unicode2.chat.ru/
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  52. # [10:29] <Lachy> oh wow, that's even funnier than Dmitry's HTML60 stuff
  53. # [10:29] <Lachy> should probably call it Unicode 60
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  63. # [12:37] <Philip`> Far too many people have non-standard doctypes - I see "-//SQ//DTD HTML 2.0 + all extensions//EN", "-//SoftQuad//DTD HoTMetaL PRO 4.0::19970916::extensions to HTML 4.0//EN", "-//Stanford University Libraries//DTD HTML Experimental//EN", "-//GSI//DTD smPanel 1.0 //EN", and I've not even looked at many yet
  64. # [13:04] <hsivonen> Philip`: from what era? in terms of quirks mode needs, should those have made it onto dbaron's doctype list way back when? (too late now anyway)
  65. # [13:09] <Philip`> From the couple of thousand documents I got from Yahoo search results a few months ago
  66. # [13:09] <Philip`> (It would be much better to do this on a more proper sample, but currently I'm just trying to see if the system could generally work)
  67. # [13:11] <Philip`> IE just looks for the strings "DOCTYPE NETSC", " HTML plus", "DTD HTML EXP" and "DTD W3 HTML//" (anywhere inside the <!doctype...> string) to decide to use quirks mode, so that'll catch many of the unusual doctypes too
  68. # [13:13] <Philip`> (where "anywhere" means that <!DOCTYPE fooDOCTYPE NETSCfoo> will trigger quirks mode, while <!DOCTYPE fooDOCTYPE NETSfoo> will be standards mode)
  69. # [13:20] <hsivonen> eww
  70. # [13:25] <Philip`> Oh, plus there's some special cases depending on finding " Transitional//" and "http://" and some HTML indicators ("DTD HTML 4.", etc) inside the doctype string
  71. # [13:26] <Philip`> Maybe it'd be interesting to do a comparison of what doctypes are in use in the world, and how IE vs HTML5 treats them
  72. # [13:28] <hsivonen> http://esw.w3.org/topic/HTML/AuthorSyntax I guess I could point out what's wrong with it, but doing so would tarpit me for days. :-(
  73. # [13:29] <hsivonen> Philip`: it would be interesting, but I'm not convinced that changing the spec to match IE precisely would be worth all the trouble
  74. # [13:30] <hsivonen> Philip`: the spec is already pretty close to Gecko, WebKit and Presto and they seem to handle the real Web well enough on this point
  75. # [13:30] <hsivonen> "well enough" being subjective, of course
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  109. # [23:08] <Philip`> http://canvex.lazyilluminati.com/misc/stats/analyse.cgi/index - is this kind of thing vaguely useful?
  110. # [23:08] <Philip`> (Doesn't work well in FF2 - use a proper browser, like Opera or FF3 or IE6, or tell me how to fix my CSS :-p )
  111. # [23:11] <zcorpan_> Philip`: how many with no doctype?
  112. # [23:12] <Philip`> Not sure, since my current data collection is rubbish - it's treated like a single 90MB HTML page, rather than preserving the page boundaries
  113. # [23:13] <Philip`> but I'll try to fix that, so I can count pages without doctypes, and so I can count the numbers of pages using each tag
  114. # [23:13] <zcorpan_> for the attributes, could you also say what element the attribute was found?
  115. # [23:13] <Philip`> How is that different to what e.g. http://canvex.lazyilluminati.com/misc/stats/analyse.cgi/attribute/href shows?
  116. # [23:14] <zcorpan_> ah. so why is "class" there several times?
  117. # [23:15] <Philip`> Um...
  118. # [23:15] <Philip`> Good point
  119. # [23:15] <zcorpan_> perhaps you should combine them
  120. # [23:17] <Philip`> Done
  121. # [23:17] <Philip`> That was just a bug :-)
  122. # [23:21] <zcorpan_> nice :)
  123. # [23:24] <zcorpan_> when you know how many pages have no doctype, it would be nice to know how many pages are in quirks, almost standards, and standards mode
  124. # [23:25] <zcorpan_> (though you can't know that by just tokenizing)
  125. # [23:26] <zcorpan_> or perhaps you can... but not by just looking at any doctype tokens
  126. # [23:27] <Philip`> (As a scale for the current doctype numbers, there were originally 2522 pages in total, and I guess not many have >1 doctype, so it looks like 20% were using XHTML Transitional)
  127. # [23:28] <zcorpan_> how many doctypes did you find in total?
  128. # [23:29] <Philip`> It looks like it'd be fairly easy to implement the little bit at the start of the tree construction algorithm, just to determine the quirkiness of each document
  129. # [23:30] <zcorpan_> yeah
  130. # [23:30] <Philip`> I see 1618 doctypes in total
  131. # [23:30] <zcorpan_> ~ 64%
  132. # [23:31] <Philip`> That's a surprising number of people who actually read something about HTML at least once, instead of just hitting random characters into a blank page until the right output comes
  133. # [23:31] <Philip`> though I expect there'd be quite different results if looking at a different sampling of pages
  134. # [23:32] <zcorpan_> presence of doctype doesn't imply the author having read something about html
  135. # [23:32] <Philip`> They must have either read some tutorial or read the source of someone else's page
  136. # [23:32] <zcorpan_> or used a tool that emits it for them
  137. # [23:32] <Philip`> Oh, yes
  138. # [23:32] <Philip`> (How many people actually use tools?)
  139. # [23:33] <zcorpan_> where tool can be wysiwyg editor
  140. # [23:33] <Philip`> There's still some HoTMetaL Pro out there...
  141. # [23:33] <zcorpan_> or a text editor with default templates
  142. # [23:34] <zcorpan_> etc
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  146. # [23:36] <zcorpan_> on the web scale, my expectation is that 50% don't use a doctype at all, 90% are in quirks mode, 9% are in almost standards mode, and the remaining in standards mode
  147. # [23:39] <Sander> zcorpan_: agreed if you're counting by domain. But by page, the amount of pages in standards mode is much larger, due to a number of large weblog systems having valid doctypes (think wordpress, livejournal, etc)
  148. # [23:41] <zcorpan_> Sander: don't they generally use almost standards mode doctypes?
  149. # [23:41] <Sander> no
  150. # [23:41] * Philip` wonders if there's any useful information that should be gathered from a web survey, that would require more than just the tokeniser
  151. # [23:41] * zcorpan_ thought WP used xhtml transitional
  152. # [23:42] <zcorpan_> livejournal seems to be xhtml transitional too
  153. # [23:42] <zcorpan_> which is almost standards mode, not standards mode
  154. # [23:43] <Sander> hmm, right
  155. # [23:43] <Sander> weird - I could swear page info showed when in Almost Standards Mode
  156. # [23:44] <Sander> it says "Render Mode: Standards compliance mode" - but you're right about the transitional
  157. # [23:44] <Philip`> Other things I want to count: parse errors (split into the individual causes of errors); attribute quotedness (single/double/none) and tag/attribute uppercasesness, to see how many people already write stuff as if it's XML; each step in the tokeniser algorithm; can't think of anything else at the moment
  158. # [23:45] <Philip`> *uppercasedness
  159. # [23:45] <Philip`> ((Not that that's a legitimate word in any case))
  160. # [23:49] <zcorpan_> did you filter out feeds?
  161. # [23:50] <Philip`> I didn't do any filtering (hence there being occasional PDF junk too)
  162. # [23:50] <Philip`> (For now, I'm just using the data that I collected months ago)
  163. # [23:50] <Philip`> (but I'd like to get better data)
  164. # [23:52] * zcorpan_ notes that 2 pages use <meta charset>
  165. # [23:53] <Philip`> Looks like none use <!DOCTYPE HTML>
  166. # [23:54] <Philip`> There's two <footer> and one <header>
  167. # [23:55] <Philip`> and two <section>
  168. # [23:55] <Philip`> so some people are using HTML5 features, even though they never actually meant to
  169. # [23:56] <zcorpan_> how do you know what they meant?
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