From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,a0b0395751409938 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-05-13 08:19:47 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!postnews1.google.com!not-for-mail From: dennison@telepath.com (Ted Dennison) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Digital MoBoard in Ada Date: 13 May 2002 08:19:47 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com/ Message-ID: <4519e058.0205130719.7a202da9@posting.google.com> References: <3CDC6AE3.FCBB6E96@adaworks.com> <3CDF22A0.9DD85AD2@adaworks.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 65.115.221.98 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1021303187 13356 127.0.0.1 (13 May 2002 15:19:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: 13 May 2002 15:19:47 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:23961 Date: 2002-05-13T15:19:47+00:00 List-Id: Richard Riehle wrote in message news:<3CDF22A0.9DD85AD2@adaworks.com>... > I was able to display the site. However, I will contact the authors > and let them know that some people are having trouble with it. The > digital moboard is not about web sites anyway. They simply put > up a quick web site to provide information about their software. I definitely feel your pain, in that you were trying to drum up some supportive comments for this cool project, and instead got mostly complaints about the website. It greives me that I'm about to add to it... I'm not a teacher, so I'm definitely *way* out of line here, but this is a huge pet peeve of mine. It might be a good idea in the future to impress upon one's students that HTML is a programming language, and should be used with the same level of professionalism as any other language. In particular, web authors should always run their sources through the W3C validator like they would compile any other sources. Of course it would be silly to just blame teachers for the general low quality of web code out there, as most web authors are self-taught. But from CS students I'd hope to see better, or I have no hope at all. I could also display the site just fine w/ Mozilla, but I thought I'd run it through the WC3 validator. First off, it doesn't have the required doctype header (a common but annoying problem). When I ran it again using 4.01 transitional (generally the most forgiving setting), I got about 117 errors. You can see for yourself at http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.digitalmoboard.hssites.com%2F&charset=%28detect+automatically%29&doctype=HTML+4.01+Transitional Again I think its horrible that you came here looking for support, and instead got slammed about the website. I'll go bludgen myself for it at lunch... -- T.E.D. Home - mailto:dennison@telepath.com (Yahoo: Ted_Dennison) Homepage - http://www.telepath.com/dennison/Ted/TED.html (down)