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
Oct 9 '05
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Hans-Joachim Zierke wrote:
[[[ Replied with a lot of good advice ]]]
Yeah...I know the "badge" is mostly a "vanity thing" for most
people who use it; but I still like to enforce the idea that
there *should* be standards that everyone should strive for.
I see it as being similar to associates at work, who when
sending memos back and forth, seem to demonstrate that they
never learned even the rudimentary concepts about grammar
and punctuation. I always want to send their memos back, asking
for "the grammatically correct" version.
:o)
And as I said elsewhere, this code work is for a friend; and it
is *she* who is paying for the hosting. So, it is no "financial
burden" on myself...just a bit of irritation over having my own
code doctored in such a way.
--
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
Guy Macon schrieb: In a couple of days you will have a rough estimate of how many people read your posts to comp.infosystem s.www.authoring.html... :)
Obviously, my fan club is of limited size.
That's reassuring: I should stick with working on my (traffic planning)
content instead. ;-)
Hans-Joachim
--
"Lars Kasper" <se************ ****@LarsKasper .de> schrieb: Hoffentlich positioniert sie es dort nicht auch noch fixiert.
body { position: bondage } (Steffi Abel)
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from Greg Heilers <gN************ @earthNOSPAMlin k.net>
in message <oj************ *****@newsread1 .news.pas.earth link.net>
posted at 2005-10-09T17:20 And as I said elsewhere, this code work is for a friend; and it is *she* who is paying for the hosting. So, it is no "financial burden" on myself...just a bit of irritation over having my own code doctored in such a way.
Well, that's Yahoo for you. I bet they would quit doing this in a hurry
if, say, Opera, Safari, and Mozilla Firefox actually ignored the code
after </html>. (Internet Exploder probably won't ever be fixed in this
regard, sadly.) For all I know, maybe at least one already does (I
haven't experimented with this issue at length).
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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 put the valid-html401.gif on a Web page, someone might
actually try to validate that page. When it fails, your
credibility as a Web developer goes to zero.
What Yahoo is doing is hacking the Web pages. In general, this is
a hostile action that should not be tolerated. It's no better than
some vandal putting graffiti on the side of your house. If it were
an outsider (not Yahoo), it would be a criminal act in some
jurisdictions.
As others have said, find another hosting service. Before you (or
your friend) sign up for a service, make sure they do not hack
their customer's Web pages.
--
David E. Ross
<URL:http://www.rossde.com/>
I use Mozilla as my Web browser because I want a browser that
complies with Web standards. See <URL:http://www.mozilla.org/>.
Hans-Joachim Zierke wrote: 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. ;-)
I have a page called "Viewing My Web Pages", where I discuss why I
try to adhere to the HTML 4.01 and CSS specifications and the
meaning of the valid-html401.gif graphic. It has had 5,396 hits
since 10 Feb 2004.
I've never looked at what kinds of hits individual pages get. Last
month, I logged the hits on 15 of my pages. Recognizable browsers
accounted for 70.6% of the 1,987 hits over a two week period. The
remaining 29.4% were various bots.
Thus, I extrapolate that "Viewing My Web Pages" received over 3,800
human hits in a little over 1.5 years or more than 6 per day.
I have a non-technical page that has had 58,794 hits since 22 Nov
1998. This is more than 16 human hits per day. Seven years after
I created that page, it still results in several E-mails per
month.
--
David E. Ross
<URL:http://www.rossde.com/>
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