Last month Google looked a over 1 billion pages and compiled statistics regarding the usage of HTML tags, attributes, classes and meta data. Quite an interesting read: Google Code: Web Authoring Statistics.

Today I just discovered another cool tool: man2html. Funny enough, I saw it mentioned in a Mac OS hints blog. man2html allows you to see the local man pages in your favorite browser.

In order to install man2html on an Ubuntu box do the following:

• Install the man2html package through Synaptic or apt-get
• Make sure you have apache2 installed and running
• Now you can just go to the following URL: http://localhost/cgi-bin/man/man2html :-)

You can also use the command line using hman instead of man:

Mozilla is working on a developer site with Wiki based documentation for web development: http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Main_Page

An excellent idea, it would be great to get (X)HTML, CSS, XML... reference documentations here. At some point I was thinking that Wikibooks could host such documentation, but Mozilla is a better place I guess, more focused. I hope it will take off.

Just found this excellent web design resource: Web Design Patterns.

Very neat idea, distribute the work of creating browser shots for different browsers and platform: Distributed Automatic Browser Screenshots. Not sure how will this project take off, if people only use resources and don't give back then it is not going to work. It seems quite hard for an average web developer to give back, complicated setup is needed.

One of the commercial sites I have seen is BrowserCam. While not too expensive for a commercial project, for open source projects it is almost a no go.

Two interesting articles about formatting web links, lots of good pointers.

Formatting Web Links: a "Puristic" View by Bob DuCharme -- Someone who's thought very hard about link formatting argues that the best thing you can do is leave it alone.

Good Hyperlink, Bad Hyperlink by chromatic -- Martin Hardee explains why hyperlinks on "click here" are bad, not just useless. Here are a few other suggestions for better hyperlinks.