Greetings,
It is wonderful to find such a useful group. This is my first
time here, so I apologize up front, if this question has been
asked (and answered) a thousand times before.
While validating my code with the W3C Validator, I pass (get
"The Green") while my files reside on my local computer. However,
once I upload them to the host (Yahoo Webhostings...t he paid version,
*not* Geocities), I get error messages (and a "Fail"), due to
the lines of tracking code that gets appended to the ends of the pages,
after my </html> tags.
Now, I know that *my* code has "passed", but I still feel a tad
uneasy about including the "valid-html401" image and link on my
web pages, even though the failing code is from the host, and
not my own hand.
Has the solution to this "moral dilemma" been addressed; or...
is there a work-around situation for this host-tacked-on code?
Thanks...
--
Greg Heilers
Registered Linux user #328317 - SlackWare 10.1 (2.6.10)
.....
As far as anyone knows we're a nice, normal family.
-- Homer Simpson
There's No Disgrace Like Home 14 2441
On Sun, 09 Oct 2005 07:41:51 +0000, Greg Heilers sent: While validating my code with the W3C Validator, I pass (get "The Green") while my files reside on my local computer. However, once I upload them to the host (Yahoo Webhostings...t he paid version, *not* Geocities), I get error messages (and a "Fail"), due to the lines of tracking code that gets appended to the ends of the pages, after my </html> tags.
They bugger up your HTML when you pay for hosting? Get your money back
and go elsewhere for hosting.
Now, I know that *my* code has "passed", but I still feel a tad uneasy about including the "valid-html401" image and link on my web pages, even though the failing code is from the host, and not my own hand.
The validator's self-awarding badge of honour icon thing tends to be a
waste of time at best. Do you really want to draw people's attention
away from what you've done to how you've done it? And most people have no
clue about what it's about. But it's certainly not applicable to claim
your pages are valid when they're not. It doesn't matter how you create
them, it's what's served that counts.
Has the solution to this "moral dilemma" been addressed; or... is there a work-around situation for this host-tacked-on code?
None. If they've stuffed your HTML, there's no avoiding that - they've
broken it, pure and simple. Get them to stop that, or use some other
hosting service.
Greg Heilers <gN************ @earthNOSPAMlin k.net> wrote: While validating my code with the W3C Validator, I pass (get "The Green") while my files reside on my local computer. However, once I upload them to the host (Yahoo Webhostings...t he paid version, *not* Geocities), I get error messages (and a "Fail"), due to the lines of tracking code that gets appended to the ends of the pages, after my </html> tags.
[...]
Has the solution to this "moral dilemma" been addressed; or... is there a work-around situation for this host-tacked-on code?
Ditch Yahoo and get a proper host.
--
Spartanicus
Greg Heilers wrote:
[On 'free' hosts which modify pages betten upload and delivery to client] Has the solution to this "moral dilemma" been addressed;
Yes - get a better host :)
--
David Dorward <http://blog.dorward.me .uk/> <http://dorward.me.uk/>
Home is where the ~/.bashrc is
Once upon a time *Greg Heilers* wrote: Greetings,
It is wonderful to find such a useful group. This is my first time here, so I apologize up front, if this question has been asked (and answered) a thousand times before.
While validating my code with the W3C Validator, I pass (get "The Green") while my files reside on my local computer. However, once I upload them to the host (Yahoo Webhostings...t he paid version, *not* Geocities), I get error messages (and a "Fail"), due to the lines of tracking code that gets appended to the ends of the pages, after my </html> tags.
Now, I know that *my* code has "passed", but I still feel a tad uneasy about including the "valid-html401" image and link on my web pages, even though the failing code is from the host, and not my own hand.
Has the solution to this "moral dilemma" been addressed; or... is there a work-around situation for this host-tacked-on code?
If you are paying for the service, you should have an option to remove
the Yahoo tracking code and use an other that you can make valid, if
you still want sutch tracking for the pages. If you don't have the
option, just tell Yahoo to go to hell and move to an other host!
--
/Arne
Now killing all posts originating at GoogleGroups
Workaround: http://www.safalra.com/special/googlegroupsreply/
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On Sun, 09 Oct 2005 07:41:51 GMT in
comp.infosystem s. www.authoring.html, Greg Heilers favored us with... While validating my code with the W3C Validator, I pass (get "The Green") while my files reside on my local computer. However, once I upload them to the host (Yahoo Webhostings...t he paid version, *not* Geocities), I get error messages (and a "Fail"), due to the lines of tracking code that gets appended to the ends of the pages, after my </html> tags.
Has the solution to this "moral dilemma" been addressed;
Sure -- use a real Web host, not one that forces you to deliver bad
pages. There are plenty of inexpensive hosts available, and a quick
google through the archives of this group will show them.
And you're not even getting this Yahoo "service" for free? They're
CHARGING you to screw up your pages?
--
Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Tompkins County, New York, USA http://OakRoadSystems.com/
HTML 4.01 spec: http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/
validator: http://validator.w3.org/
CSS 2.1 spec: http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/
validator: http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/
Why We Won't Help You: http://diveintomark.org/archives/200..._wont_help_you
Tim wrote: On Sun, 09 Oct 2005 07:41:51 +0000, Greg Heilers sent:
While validating my code with the W3C Validator, I pass (get "The Green") while my files reside on my local computer. However, once I upload them to the host (Yahoo Webhostings...t he paid version, *not* Geocities), I get error messages (and a "Fail"), due to the lines of tracking code that gets appended to the ends of the pages, after my </html> tags.
They bugger up your HTML when you pay for hosting? Get your money back and go elsewhere for hosting.
Thanks everyone...it seems that all your suggestions share they same
point-of-view. I failed to mention that I am doing this particular code
work for a friend, as a favor, and it is *she* who is paying for the
service. So, *I* am not getting a bad deal "monetary-wise", but it still
bothers me to see other's code tacked onto the end of my own code...
hence the "moral dilemma" remark I made.
I think I will first send off a series of emails to Yahoo, to see if I
can get them to give me a valid reason for *why* they do such a thing.
--
Greg Heilers
Registered Linux user #328317 - SlackWare 10.1 (2.6.10)
.....
Aw, Dad, you've done a lot of great things, but you're a very old man, and
old people are useless.
-- Homer Simpson
Homer the Vigilante
On Sun, 09 Oct 2005 14:58:26 GMT, Greg Heilers
<gN************ @earthNOSPAMlin k.net> wrote: Tim wrote:
On Sun, 09 Oct 2005 07:41:51 +0000, Greg Heilers sent:
While validating my code with the W3C Validator, I pass (get "The Green") while my files reside on my local computer. However, once I upload them to the host (Yahoo Webhostings...t he paid version, *not* Geocities), I get error messages (and a "Fail"), due to the lines of tracking code that gets appended to the ends of the pages, after my </html> tags. They bugger up your HTML when you pay for hosting? Get your money back and go elsewhere for hosting.
Thanks everyone...it seems that all your suggestions share they same point-of-view. I failed to mention that I am doing this particular code work for a friend, as a favor, and it is *she* who is paying for the service.
Well, in that case the answer to your original question is simple: I
certainly wouldn't put the "valid" icons on the site.
I think I will first send off a series of emails to Yahoo, to see if I can get them to give me a valid reason for *why* they do such a thing.
Good luck. If a few dozen other people do the same I suppose there's
some chance they might take notice ...
--
Stephen Poley http://www.xs4all.nl/~sbpoley/webmatters/
Greg Heilers schrieb: Has the solution to this "moral dilemma" been addressed; or... is there a work-around situation for this host-tacked-on code?
First let me say, that it _must_ be this way. Valid pages under a
Yahoo address would damage their reputation. I once tried to
participate in a Yahoo forum, and it never worked. I don't know,
but assume, that with a certain browser / cookie setting /
Javascript setting / whatever, I could make it work, but I simply
didn't bother with that junk.
So you better assume, that Yahoo won't be able, to improve that
attachment to validity, and get a better provider.
That said ...
It is understandable, that you want to put that badge on the first
of your technically improved pages. But believe me: In half a year,
you'll smile about it. ;-)
Validation has 3 rewards:
1) Visitors with non-standard browsers aren't sent away.
2) Your site will still work in 5 years (which also means, that invalid
commercial sites are a good idea, if you want to sell a relaunch
regularely, and the customer is dumb enough).
3) You can easily find the unwanted results of your editing work with
a batch validation. (The WDG Validator does up to 100 pages, and
if that's not enough, you can install it locally.) I do a monthly
batch validation for the little bugs that pass my eyes.
But while your readers will like good access to your site, few of them
will be interested, /how/ you did that. My own solution has been, to
have a separate http://zierke.com/tech/ with some explanations, and
I've put that badge on that single page.
This way, I can also judge, how interested my visitors are, to read
about the technical details of the HTML...
My site does not have any mainstream content, and therefore does not
have many visitors. Perhaps 10 000 page hits per month, of which
3000 - 3500 come from Yahoo Slurp, Googlebot, and comrades.
And now do your guess - of the 6500 - 7000 "real" page hits, how many
hits for the "tech" page?
40. [1]
This might give you a feeling, how important the issue might be for
for your readers. ;-) Readers like the results, but typically don't
bother, how it was achieved.
Hans-Joachim
[1] Actually, the answer is 42, but newsgroups readers won't believe me,
that I didn't make that up. ;-)
Hans-Joachim Zierke wrote: Greg Heilers schrieb:
Has the solution to this "moral dilemma" been addressed; or... is there a work-around situation for this host-tacked-on code?
First let me say, that it _must_ be this way. Valid pages under a Yahoo address would damage their reputation. I once tried to participate in a Yahoo forum, and it never worked. I don't know, but assume, that with a certain browser / cookie setting / Javascript setting / whatever, I could make it work, but I simply didn't bother with that junk.
So you better assume, that Yahoo won't be able, to improve that attachment to validity, and get a better provider.
That said ...
It is understandable, that you want to put that badge on the first of your technically improved pages. But believe me: In half a year, you'll smile about it. ;-)
Validation has 3 rewards:
1) Visitors with non-standard browsers aren't sent away.
2) Your site will still work in 5 years (which also means, that invalid commercial sites are a good idea, if you want to sell a relaunch regularely, and the customer is dumb enough).
3) You can easily find the unwanted results of your editing work with a batch validation. (The WDG Validator does up to 100 pages, and if that's not enough, you can install it locally.) I do a monthly batch validation for the little bugs that pass my eyes.
But while your readers will like good access to your site, few of them will be interested, /how/ you did that. My own solution has been, to have a separate http://zierke.com/tech/ with some explanations, and I've put that badge on that single page.
This way, I can also judge, how interested my visitors are, to read about the technical details of the HTML...
My site does not have any mainstream content, and therefore does not have many visitors. Perhaps 10 000 page hits per month, of which 3000 - 3500 come from Yahoo Slurp, Googlebot, and comrades.
And now do your guess - of the 6500 - 7000 "real" page hits, how many hits for the "tech" page?
40. [1]
This might give you a feeling, how important the issue might be for for your readers. ;-) Readers like the results, but typically don't bother, how it was achieved.
Hans-Joachim
[1] Actually, the answer is 42, but newsgroups readers won't believe me, that I didn't make that up. ;-)
In a couple of days you will have a rough estimate of how many people
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