- From: Philip Taylor <philip@zaynar.demon.co.uk>
- Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2007 15:47:29 +0100
- To: Robert Burns <rob@robburns.com>
- CC: public-html@w3.org
Robert Burns wrote: > On Aug 16, 2007, at 8:58 AM, James Graham wrote: > >> Robert Burns wrote: >>> >>> Which results are you referring to here. Ian looked for misused >>> <input usemap> elements. Philip looked for <blink> and <element-I >>> just-mad-up> on another data set. The couldn't reproduce the same >>> results because they were looking for different things. >> >> I meant, more generally, that the two different surveys they did have >> produced similar results for questions like "what fraction of pages >> use the <foo> element?" rather than questions specifically related to >> <input usemap>. IIRC Phillip didn't find any use of <input usemap> >> (which you would predict from the the small usage found by Hixie and >> the relative number of pages in the two surveys). > > Niether Hixe nor Philip looked for use of <input usemap> . Hixie looked > for misuse (or esoteric use) of <input usemap>. Philip looked for other > stuff (and unsurprisingly didn't find any <input usemap>). http://canvex.lazyilluminati.com/survey/2007-07-17/analyse.cgi/index - I looked for all start tags and for all attributes on start tags. http://canvex.lazyilluminati.com/survey/2007-07-17/analyse.cgi/attr/usemap is the data for <... usemap> - out of 7739 pages, <img usemap> was on 1006, <td usemap> was on 1, and usemap was not found on any other tag. (Given the sample size, that just indicates that any other usemaps are on somewhere below 0.2% of the pages from dmoz.org. I could probably look at a hundred times as many pages without too much trouble, but I'd be happier if there was a better source of 'normal' pages than dmoz.org) -- Philip Taylor philip@zaynar.demon.co.uk
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