- From: Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>
- Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2010 00:20:06 -0700
- To: HTMLwg WG <public-html@w3.org>
I've decided that it's worthwhile to review the HTML5 conformance errors reported on notable sites in more details. I started the following wiki page to collect data: http://www.w3.org/html/wg/wiki/HTML5_Authoring_Conformance_Study Thanks to Aryeh Gregor and myself, we now have a full classification of HTML5 conformance errors on the Alexa Top 10. Thanks also to Sam Ruby for his blog post that inspired the set of sites chosen and links to similar data in raw form. If anyone would like to help with gathering the data for the remaining sites, it would be much appreciated. The methodology is documented on the wiki page. Once the raw data is collected, I plan to write up a summary of which errors are common across many sites. For those that I conclude are more annoying than helpful, I will file bugs. I encourage others to file bugs on any requirements that they feel are wrong or insufficiently justified. So far the most common validation failures that seem clearly deliberate are unescaped &, and presentational markup. Note: this does not preclude anyone else from filing and pursuing omnibus bugs about authoring conformance in general. I am simply choosing to invest my personal energies in what I see as a more fruitful course of action. Regards, Maciej
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