Re: [minutes] XHTML and MIME types

And I could bet 50 euros that 900 or more of those 935 sites are mobile 
only sites, leaving about 30 full-web sites  (or less) which use the 
application/xhtml+xml MIME type (probably just demos published on sites 
which explain how XHTML should be used in theory)

Thanks a lot, Casais

Luca

Eduardo Casais wrote:
> Just to give some quantitative basis to the discussion
> on XHTML: the most recent large-scale study of
> browsing on the Internet is the MAMA project by Opera
> (many quite interesting reports at section "Opera" of 
> http://dev.opera.com/articles).
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> Here are relevant results.
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> URL analyzed: 		3509180
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> Declared MIME types (percentages of URL):
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> text/html:		3505990 (99,91%)
> application/xhtml+xml:	935 (0,027%)
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> Out of the URL analyzed, 1788294 had a DOCTYPE 
> (50,96%), thus unambiguously identifying the markup
> (percentages of DOCTYPES):
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> HTML (2, 3, 3.2, 4.0):	1189097 (66,49%)
> XHTML (1.0, 1.1, 2):	569283 (31,83%)
> other:			45046 (2,52%)
>
> >From this, one infers a lower bound of 99,84% for the
> proportion of documents that are unambigously XHTML 
> markup but not advertised as application/xhtml+xml.
>
> Sources:
> http://dev.opera.com/articles/view/mama-basic-document-structure
> http://devfiles.myopera.com/articles/570/doctype-ci-url.htm
> http://dev.opera.com/articles/view/mama-http-headers
> http://devfiles.myopera.com/articles/554/mamaurlset-mimehistogram.htm
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