Coders are slacking when it comes to web standards — and that simply won't do in the AI age
- The ValidateHTML project examined the 5,000 most popular domains based on the Tranco list
- Project lead Théo Ducreux found that just 53% of these sites had human-readable home pages
- Almost 90% of the sites failed to meet W3C web standard, even serving violations of the HTML5 specification
ValidateHTML—an independent project overseen by French developer Théo Ducreux—has uncovered a flagrant disregard for web standards across most of the web’s most widely visited websites.
Examining 5,000 domains, ValidateHTML found that a little over half of the sites had human-readable home pages and failed to meet HTML standards set out by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and the WHATWG (Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group).
The websites were selected from the Tranco list of the top 5,000 websites, and Ducreux’s research has highlighted a disappointing trend of websites being published because they’re “good enough” with modern browsers capable of fixing the majority...
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