JRS: In article <x4*****************************@40tude.net>, seen in
news:comp.lang.javascript, Andrew Thompson <Se********@www.invalid>
posted at Sun, 16 May 2004 05:18:33 :
On Sat, 15 May 2004 18:31:17 +0100, Dr John Stockton wrote:
News is often read off-line. Therefore, questions given completely in
News are more likely to get considered.
This is of concern to me. Many of us may
have broaband, or use a web interface to the
groups through a good connection, but URL's
would have been a nuisance for me when I was
on dial-up.
I might throw a survey up at my site
to try and get some numbers..
That would give a flawed result, since your site is more likely to be
visited and answered by those with broadband / permanent access. To
sample the opinions of News users reliably, use News.
Those who want to use Web authoring as a career can be expected to have
permanent access. But those who want to use Web authoring as a means of
publishing information only need rather limited access.
URLs are most useful if there is a question about the service of a page..
I do not quite follow.
What do you mean by 'service'?
That seems to imply to me
'the HTML itself, nothing more'.
As opposed, for example, to this URL..
<http://www.physci.org/test/003url/index.html>
..purely for debugging some JS.
Could you clarify?
Remember that a question does not to have (in the mind of a potential
answer) to be logical, though it is nice when it is.
"Why is 0.1 + 0.2 not 0.3?" is a logical question; it's nice to see
code, because the problem as observed may be that
document.write(0.1+0.2) // gives 0.30000000000000004
or that
0.1 + 0.2 == 0.3 // gives false
Such a question can and should be asked entirely in News; there is no
need at all for a URL.
But a question about the behaviour of lastModified may be such as
to call for the examination of the Last-Modified: header line, as
sent by the server in question; here, a URL would be useful, to those
who know how to look at such headers.
A tool to fetch headers would be of interest,
even if it is only a Telnet script.
I've nothing against giving URLs, of course, especially if they are of a
test page; only against giving only a URL where the question could
easily be presented, in full, in News.
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