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How competing websites stack up against each other

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 Published March 23rd, 2006 11:27 PM EST By Daniel Goldman

David Storey, Opera’s Web Opener, came up with an interesting dueling contest idea that puts websites of competing brands against one another and seeing how well they display in various browsers. It also looks at other stuff, such as the use of CSS, JavaScript, and plugins.

The rules are as follows:

  1. Does the site work in all major browsers? (IE, Opera, Firefox, Safari)
  2. Does the CSS and (X)HTML validate or use standards based code the validators do not recognize yet?
  3. Are there any JavaScript errors?
  4. Does it use CSS or table based layout?
  5. Does it use CSS for style or HTML tags?
  6. Is the (X)HTML semantic and lightweight?
  7. Does the page work without plug-ins?
  8. Does the page work without JavaScript?
  9. Does the site follow accessibility guidelines such as alt tags on images?
  10. Are decretive images included in the CSS instead of the HTML?
  11. If a print option is offered is it a stylesheet or a separate page?
  12. Is a handheld stylesheet offered or the site mobile friendly?

Example:

What are some of the sites that you would like to see duel it out?

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  1. 1 Anonymous Mar 23rd, 2006 at 11:39 pm

    Sony vs. Microsoft

  2. 2 ReWiz Mar 23rd, 2006 at 11:49 pm

    google vs msn

  3. 3 ec Mar 24th, 2006 at 12:10 am

    Opera vs Firefox

  4. 4 Anonymous Mar 24th, 2006 at 2:17 am

    apple vs microsoft

  5. 5 Olf Mar 24th, 2006 at 2:18 am

    Opera vs. Microsoft :-)

  6. 6 Anonymous Mar 24th, 2006 at 2:36 am

    Pokemon vs. Digimon

    I’m such a nerd. =D

  7. 7 Dante Mar 24th, 2006 at 3:18 am

    Ther’s nothing futuristic about StarTrek.com. Flash for the menu, come on. And it’s been like this for ages.

    The link is a trick in itself, I remember at one point they had the notice that they improved the site, so you better get your plugin enabled, or else. And it’s still there: just try to go to http://www.startrek.com/ and you get redirected to /flash_required.htm

    What can I say, I like the universe. But their *paramount* concern is not me.

    BTW, “TM & © 2003″

  8. 8 Anonymous Mar 24th, 2006 at 8:46 am

    Check out the home sites of the major browsers.
    Willem

  9. 9 undeuxtroiskid Mar 24th, 2006 at 10:38 am

    I added 4 to the comments there.

  10. 10 Anonymous Mar 24th, 2006 at 10:54 am

    Metallica Vs. Megadeth

  11. 11 Anonymous Mar 24th, 2006 at 8:49 pm

    CNN vs. MSNBC

  12. 12 qu4nm1n9 Mar 25th, 2006 at 9:38 am

    nike vs adidas

  13. 13 Anonymous Mar 27th, 2006 at 3:56 am

    FC Barcelona vs. Real Madrid

  14. 14 Anonymous Mar 28th, 2006 at 6:30 am

    http://www.scoremag.com VS. http://www.xlgirls.com

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