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=0.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,TO_NO_BRKTS_FROM_MSSP autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,91540088e4856cb2 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-10-02 12:43:22 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!feed.textport.net!newsranger.com!www.newsranger.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada From: Ted Dennison References: <9p5cp3014ut@drn.newsguy.com> <6nvt7.55822$QK.36784758@news1.sttln1.wa.home.com> <9p6a5n02tgp@drn.newsguy.com> <5ee5b646.0109300617.61bf58e0@posting.google.com> <5ee5b646.0110010616.5b332f1a@posting.google.com> <2cdu7.32$3e4.3829@read2.inet.fi> <5ee5b646.0110021024.74e392ef@posting.google.com> Subject: Re: Quality checking of code Message-ID: <6Nou7.13247$ev2.21703@www.newsranger.com> X-Abuse-Info: When contacting newsranger.com regarding abuse please X-Abuse-Info: forward the entire news article including headers or X-Abuse-Info: else we will not be able to process your request X-Complaints-To: abuse@newsranger.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 02 Oct 2001 15:42:58 EDT Organization: http://www.newsranger.com Date: Tue, 02 Oct 2001 19:42:58 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:13644 Date: 2001-10-02T19:42:58+00:00 List-Id: In article <5ee5b646.0110021024.74e392ef@posting.google.com>, Robert Dewar says... >Of course, as I understand it, there was no syntax error >in our page, just a poor choice of colors (white on white) >that for some reason was mishandled (in a user friendly >manner) by both IE (all versions) and older versions of >Netscape :-) That's correct, as far as the original problem was concerned. However, it would not be perfectly true to say that "there was no syntax error on that page". In fact, there were and still are several. For one thing, there is no tag, as required by the standard. That's a fatal error for the W3C validator, and it can check no further. If I tell it to assume HTML 3.2 and ignore the (bad) header, it pulls 10 syntax errors. At least one of those errors is quite visible to Mozilla. The entire contents of the main frame were put into a hyperlink with the rather amusing target of "(Empty Reference!)". Due to this error, any attempt to click *anywhere* within that frame with my Mozilla browser nets me a page transition to: Not Found The requested URL /texts/news/product_updates/(Empty Reference!) was not found on this server. --- T.E.D. homepage - http://www.telepath.com/dennison/Ted/TED.html home email - mailto:dennison@telepath.com No trees were killed in the sending of this message. However a large number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced.