Re: Fairness of free scripts

I have the impression that an incredible number of both JavaScript and Perl
programmers are not as familiar with HTML as one might desire.  I try to
make sure all the HTML generated by my Perl scripts validates to at least
4.01 T, and I validate my JavaScript along with that pages...but you're
right, its a problem.  I usually modify their script as necessary to
eliminate the bugs.

D

----- 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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