OT: Validation Markup Errors Winner

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Adrienne Boswell

I was taking a look at a site someone wants to emulate, sent it to the
validator and was astounded by the amount of errors. My eyes shot out of
their sockets, there were so many.

And the winner is... <http://airliners.net> with 11,092 errors and 242
warnings.

Even changing the doctype to HTML Transitional, there are 147 errors
(XHTML tags, missing alt, not escaping &). I guess that's not too bad,
considering there are 6,193 lines. It's just a mess - a good example of
what NOT to do.



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cwdjrxyz

I was taking a look at a site someone wants to emulate, sent it to the
validator and was astounded by the amount of errors.  My eyes shot out of
their sockets, there were so many.

And the winner is... <http://airliners.net> with 11,092 errors and 242
warnings.

Even changing the doctype to HTML Transitional, there are 147 errors
(XHTML tags, missing alt, not escaping &).  I guess that's not too bad,
considering there are 6,193 lines.  It's just a mess - a good example of
what NOT to do.
Click to expand...

Yes, this tops the number of errors I have ever seen on a web page.
The page uses a lot of JavaScript, so it is interesting to view the
page with script turned off. The JavaScript snow effect reminded me of
one often used about 10+ years ago. It is a "new and improved" snow
script that is very long and has many options. The script may be
viewed at http://www.airliners.net/js/snowstorm.js . I nearly fell off
of my chair laughing when I looked at the Properties near the top of
the script. One line says:
this.snowColor='#fff'; //Don't eat (or use?) yellow snow . Also the
site of the owner of the snow script is quite different from the
usual. This "improved" snow Javascript did require quite a bit of
talent to write. However, you can do much more with a Java snow
script. One of the most complex Java applets I have seen produces
snow, wind, drifting mist, thunder and a marquee like effect, all of
which may be self started.
 
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dorayme

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m>,
cwdjrxyz said:
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The page uses a lot of JavaScript, so it is interesting to view the
page with script turned off.
Click to expand...

Yes, it was the first thing I did and basically only to turn off
the snow but this had consequences. I hope the web site maker is
never allowed anywhere near the aircraft maintenance section or,
God forbid, the cockpits.
 
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P E Schoen

"Adrienne Boswell" wrote in message
I was taking a look at a site someone wants to emulate, sent it to the
validator and was astounded by the amount of errors. My eyes shot
out of their sockets, there were so many.
Click to expand...
And the winner is... <http://airliners.net> with 11,092 errors and 242
warnings.
Click to expand...
Even changing the doctype to HTML Transitional, there are 147
errors (XHTML tags, missing alt, not escaping &). I guess that's not
too bad, considering there are 6,193 lines. It's just a mess - a good
example of what NOT to do.
Click to expand...

Amazing. The "snow" caused the horizontal scroll bar to appear and
disappear, and my Norton 360 flagged "high CPU usage". I had a peak at the
HTML, and most of it is OPTIONs for the "search engine". ISTM such
information should be in a database and not hard coded in HTML. Another
oddity is duplicate </body> and <html> tags at the end.

What is "Demand Media Network"? The banner is not clickable. Are they the
ones that made this thing?

Otherwise, it is an interesting website.

Paul
www.muttleydog.com
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cwdjrxyz

Amazing. The "snow" caused the horizontal scroll bar to appear and
disappear, and my Norton 360 flagged "high CPU usage".
Click to expand...

The problem with the scroll bar likely is in the snow script. Some of
the snow flakes likely move out of the range of the maximum screen
dimensions that can be viewed and this causes the scroll bar to appear
in an attempt to allow you to scroll and view it. The solution is to
write the script so that it does not allow any snow flakes to move out
of the range of maximum dimensions for which the monitor screen is
set. This, among other things, requires that you consider that
different monitor resolutions may be used. The moving scroll bar was a
very common problem for many old dhtml scripts. You would need to test
your page at several resolutions on different browsers to make sure
your dhtml script does not have "scrollitus". Also, back in IE4 and
NN4 days when modern JavaScript was just being introduced, you had to
often write three versions of script to work on most versions of
browsers then being used. In addition to modern Javascript , you had
to use document.all for IE and document.layers for NN, among many
other things, to produce dynamic dhtml effects. As for the high CPU
usage warning, that modern snow script is moving many more snowflakes
at the same time than was common many years ago. Each tiny bit of
movement for each snowflake must be computed using JavaScript math
functions resulting in very heavy CPU usage. On a much slower computer
that you might have used 10 years ago, the motion might slow down to a
near stall, or the computer might crash.
 
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Norman Peelman

Yes, this tops the number of errors I have ever seen on a web page.
The page uses a lot of JavaScript, so it is interesting to view the
page with script turned off. The JavaScript snow effect reminded me of
one often used about 10+ years ago. It is a "new and improved" snow
script that is very long and has many options. The script may be
viewed at http://www.airliners.net/js/snowstorm.js . I nearly fell off
of my chair laughing when I looked at the Properties near the top of
the script. One line says:
this.snowColor='#fff'; //Don't eat (or use?) yellow snow . Also the
site of the owner of the snow script is quite different from the
usual. This "improved" snow Javascript did require quite a bit of
talent to write. However, you can do much more with a Java snow
script. One of the most complex Java applets I have seen produces
snow, wind, drifting mist, thunder and a marquee like effect, all of
which may be self started.
Click to expand...

That damned snow script sends my dual core into overdrive.

Script off = 1 GHz
Script on = 3.2 GHz

Uggh!
 
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P E Schoen

"Norman Peelman" wrote in message
That damned snow script sends my dual core into overdrive.
Click to expand...
Script off = 1 GHz
Script on = 3.2 GHz
Click to expand...
Uggh!
Click to expand...

Actually, it is trying to heat up the CPU to melt the snow :)

It caused a warning from my Norton 360 of high CPU usage. So unnecessary.
Would it be possible to use an animated GIF as a background? I'm not curious
enough to try it, but it seems like a better option than a huge JavaScript
function apparently controlling the movement of each flake. I don't know why
they even need snow for an "airliner" web page. Probably something the web
designer thought was "cool".

Paul
www.muttleydog.com
 

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