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June 30, 2007
Data-Mining for Web Coders
Rene Saarsoo's 2006 thesis, Coding Practices of Web Pages presents histograms of CSS usage, attributes and their values. One cool finding; the top 3 fonts used in the CSS sites sampled are sans serifs: Arial, Verdana, and Helvetica.
Google did a similar study back in 2005, resulting in Google Code's Web Authoring Statisics. Unfortunately, their results only cover the most popular HTML and CSS elements.
Rene's thesis brings up some interesting points. Given that we're roughly 30 years (depending on who you ask) into the mainstream computer revolution and HTML will be with us for a very long time, there's value in using such studies to simplify future web standards.
Posted by Devon at June 30, 2007 10:03 AM
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