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You have a error in the stroke order of SUWARU: 座

I wanted to double check errors I found remaining in the kanjivg data but your data but you seem to have at least one wrong one:

http://jisho.org/static/images/stroke_diagrams/34809_frames.png

This was corrected in the latest update of kanjivg.

Should the third line in 才 cross the vertical line or merely touch it? Frankly, I've seen both cases, and my fonts give me mixed results as well. So which one is right?

1. In seal script, it crosses it.
2. Its radical is 手, whose variant is 扌, whose line also crosses it.
3. In my college textbook, compiled by native speakers, the stroke crosses it.

The same could be said for 材 and 財.

According to 新漢語林
⓵耀 has both a version where the 8th and 9th and 11th and 12th strokes are straight and one version with askew strokes. (So it probably depends upon which version the font uses.)
⓶The correct radical is indeed はね. KANJIDIC・EDICT is not perfect after all.

Well, the 新漢語林 does not say anything explicitly about the 3rd stroke of 才, I have got the digital version and the font used there displays 才 with a 3rd stroke that crosses the vertical one.
However, there are also stroke order diagrams (supposedly pictures, so the characters' shape is not influenced by the font choice of the denshi jisho), which shows the 3rd stroke just barely crossing the vertical one. Also, the entry for 才 hints at it being connected with the non-crossing part, eg seen in 材 (right). Take a look at the animation on the left here: http://kakijun.main.jp/page/0333200.html - it's barely crossing.
Next, wiktionary gives us another hint: http://ja.wiktionary.org/wiki/才 The crossing is common in Japanese, touching in Chinese・Cantonese. The character is the same in Unicode, the rendering depends on the font (which should be selected to suit the text's lanugage). Taking a look at the etymology and older forms does not help much: http://www.kanjinetworks.com/eng/kanji-dictionary/online-kanji-etymology-dictionary.cfm?kanji_id=SAG34

Thus, together with your experiences, both variants are somewhat frequently・commonly used, neither is "incorrect", and we cannot be sure if one・which variant is considered "correct"・"appropritate", although we have some evidence that the (at least slightly) crossing version is the "correct" one.

I don't know if this is already known, but the stroke order diagram for 骨 (ほね) seems to be wrong: the inner box in the top part is on the wrong side.
http://jisho.org/kanji/details/骨

The inner box is on the left side in simplified Chinese only. It's a font/region issue. I've also learnt it's the same with 才 (3rd line touches in simplified Chinese, crosses in Japanese and traditional Chinese). Similarly 海 will have a vertical line in the middle in Japanese, but two dots in simplified and traditional Chinese.

@dinak, it looks correct to me. Could you specify what you think is wrong with it?

Thanks.

@blutorange wrote dow! We can confirm with kakijun.main.jp

新漢語林 says 22 strokes.