Re: Fairness of free scripts

The Other Side (not necessarily my viewpoint):

The company I work for has tried to validate its html and script before
handing the stuff over to customers, but often the lack of valid attributes,
etc. are customer driven. They want a particular look or functionality....

Andrew

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ben Bradley UK" <bradley(at)mudmail.co.uk>
To: <hwg-basics(at)hwg.org>
Sent: Friday, April 14, 2000 5:07 PM
Subject: Fairness of free scripts


>
> I think it is extremely unfair the way some companies do not bother to
make
> sure their scripts validate before getting users to add them to their
pages.
>
> For example, on attempting to validate my site, there were only four
errors,
> and yes, they were all in scripts provided by companies!
>
> Has anyone else had any problems with this, and any success in getting
> companies to re-write their scripts?
>
> I have often found that the problems are within the paging systems said
> companies use.
>
> eg:  this one came from CNET News.com Affiliate Button
>
> ----------------------------------------
> Line 433, column 76:
>   ... ast.com/bfast/click?bfmid=1476905&siteid=10138169&bfpage=news_5"
TARGE
> ...
>                                                         ^
> Error: general entity "bfpage" not defined and no default entity
> ---------------------------------------
>
> This annoys me!!!!
>
> Any advice apart from getting rid of the offending items?
>
> Ben Bradley UK
> Creative Director
>
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