[WEB4LIB] Re: Web editors/marketshare & reviews

[Thomas Dowling]

> Thomas, where did you get this from?  If it is from a spidering of the
web,
> of course FrontPage shows up as having a huge number, because they
stick
> their name on every page it touches, whether it created that page
originally
> or not.  If an editor doesn't do that, they won't show up on the
radar.  So,
> where did you get these very interesting numbers?
>

This is a by-product of the link checking I do for Libweb.  I end up
with the HTML source for all the homepages I check, and I just have a
script that scans them for '<meta name="generator"...' lines and a few
other strings that I'm aware of editors leaving in their wake.  Other
editors also add a generator line to every page they touch (even Tidy
does that now); FrontPage is so intrusive in its handling of non-FP
pages, that it makes sense to call it responsible for what it leaves
behind.

Thomas Dowling
OhioLINK - Ohio Library and Information Network
tdowling at ohiolink.edu