FW: [WEB4LIB] Problems with page validation

[Gimon, Charles A]

1. That Javascript thing with the code from thecounter.com:

The SCRIPT tag needs a TYPE attribute. See:

http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/REC-html401-19991224/interact/scripts.html#h-18.2.
1

For that matter, I wonder if you could just use the code they have inside
<NOSCRIPT>...</NOSCRIPT> for everyone and dump the rest? Might solve several
headaches at once.

2. Ampersands inside URLs (that includes URLs inside <A HREF="">)
need to be written as entities regardless. Change all the & in your URLs
to &amp; and you should fix that problem.

--Charles Gimon
  Web Coordinator
  Minneapolis Public Library

-----Original Message-----
From: Robert Sullivan [mailto:SCP_SULLI at sals.edu] 
Sent: Tuesday, August 29, 2000 12:24 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list
Subject: [WEB4LIB] Problems with page validation


The recent discussion of document declarations and page validation reminded
me
of a question I've been meaning to ask.

I've been including declarations for a couple of years after the validators
suggested it.  I was using HTML 2, since I was writing for Lynx and VT 200
terminals.  Now I'm converting to 4.01 (still making them Lynx-accessible,
though).

My problem has come in two areas.  First, I use thecounter.com's Javascript
counter.  I like it a lot, but validator.w3.org complains about some errors
and
won't validate my home page <http://www.scpl.org>.  Since I want to put the
HTML 4.01 logo on my pages, should I ignore this?  I'm not a Javascript
programmer, so I can't tell what should be changed, or if adding an alt tag
for
the invisible counter would cause any problems in its operation.

Secondly, the validators don't like the structure of some of the URLs I link
to.  My local information pages at <http://www.scpl.org/local> link to
assorted
census statistics, maps, campaign contributions etc., and the &s in the URLs
give the validator fits.  I can't change any of those, so should I just put
the
logo on and ignore those errors?

Thanks for any thoughts on this.

Bob Sullivan                               scp_sulli at sals.edu
Schenectady County Public Library (NY)     http://www.scpl.org