>>In the teleconference survey, Josef Spillner writes:

>> "Clarification would be needed on the top200 vs. top200-US sites survey
>> suggestions. The latter one would clearly produce skewed results, but
>> the former one should also not be more than a tiny source of input, as
>>top sites usually don't build HTML pages, they buy them instead."
>> -- http://www.w3.org/2002/09/wbs/40318/tel26Apr/results

> I'm not really that picky. If you want to survey the top 200 sites
> in the world, go for it. If you want to survey the top 3 sites
> in your neighborhood, that's perhaps a little less interesting,
> but I'd still like to hear about it.

Alexa's an ideal source. It generates the Top 500 most _popular Global_ sites, e.g., MySpace and YouTube, which will give more diverse data regardless if the sites are templates or hand-coded. Very few WordPress sites are not templates. And, template authors are still authors.

> Does anybody have any progress to report so far? either
> for HTML4-happiness or HTML5-happiness or XHTML-happiness?

HTML4-happiness? No. Popular opinion is that HTML(n) is a step backwards. XHTML-happiness? No.


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Sean Fraser
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