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Re: LEGO website bug report: Invalid forward apostrophe character
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Sun, 14 Jan 2001 18:00:12 GMT
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In lugnet.publish.html, Dan Jezek writes:
Does a spell check and a great HTML check among other things.
Here is another, has more critics than the above:

http://validator.w3.org/

impossible to pass unless you only have "hello world" on a page.

Wow, that thing sure is picky!  Very nice!!  It's the best, most anal HTML
validator I've ever seen!  I think it's my new favorite.[1]

I ran it on http://www.lugnet.com/ and it balked at this link:

   <A HREF="/spotlight.cgi?days=7&threshold=50&sort=fuzzy">Mo ...
                                 ^
   Error: general entity "threshold" not defined and no default entity

At first I thought that was a bug in their parser -- that it thought I'd
meant to write "&threshold;" and it was checking for that in the wrong place,
but of course the mistake is entirely mine -- I neglected to encode the "&"
symbol in the URL.  Rewritten like so, now it's correct HTML:

   <A HREF="/spotlight.cgi?days=7&amp;=50&amp;sort=fuzzy">Mo ...

My, I think I've got a lot of these to fix.

It also told me that I was missing the TYPE="text/javascript" attribute in
several <SCRIPT> tags.  Waycool, because I didn't know that attribute even
existed, much less that it was required.

--Todd

[1] My old fav has always been Imageiware, Inc.'s free Single-Page Analysis:
http://www2.imagiware.com/RxHTML/



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(...) I see you added: TYPE="application/x-javascript" However now when trying to search either news or Partsref using IE5.0, I get the following error: A Runtime Error has occured. Do you wish to Debug? Line: 14 Error: Object Expected When (...) (23 years ago, 15-Jan-01, to lugnet.publish.html)

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(...) I concur with Todd's view that quality is utmost importance as stated in the Lugnet plan: (URL) quote "the quality of an online experience can make or break someone's day. ", who knows how many people's day the above mistake ruined? Here is a (...) (23 years ago, 14-Jan-01, to lugnet.publish.html)

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