28 May 2007
Yahoo and Google Survey
A survey of doctype and encoding usage across a couple of Yahoo and Google’s international locales:
Yahoo!
- Doctype? Yes. HTML 4.01 Strict.
- Encoding specified? Yes. UTF-8.
Yahoo! Taiwan
- Doctype? Yes. HTML 4.01 Strict (but mixes in some XHTML syntax).
- Encoding specified? Yes. BIG5 (legacy traditional Chinese encoding).
Yahoo! Japan
- Doctype? No.
- Encoding specified? Yes. EUC-JP (legacy Japanese encoding).
Yahoo! China
- Doctype? Yes. XHTML 1.0 Transitional.
- Encoding specified? Yes. GB2312 (legacy simplified Chinese encoding).
Google
- Doctype? No.
- Encoding specified? Yes. UTF-8.
Google Taiwan
- Doctype? No.
- Encoding specified? Yes. UTF-8.
Google Japan
- Doctype? Yes. HTML 4.01 Strict (but mixes in some XHTML syntax).
- Encoding specified? Yes. UTF-8.
Google China
- Doctype? No.
- Encoding specified? Yes. UTF-8.
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