On Mon, 22 May 2000 09:47:35 -0500, Samuel W. Heywood wrote:

> Hello:

> Usually, whenever Arachne encounters poorly written Java Script, she will
> just display a blank page.  The user may fix the problem simply by
> editing the page so as to delete the offending script, and then the user
> just reloads the page.  (BTW, I find Arachne far superior to MSIE and
> Netscape in this regard.  When either of these browsers finds poorly
> written Java Script, they frequently will first give the user a Java
> Script error message and then they will next inform the user that "This
> program has performed an illegal operation and will be shut down") :-(
> Yesterday this happened to me while I was using an internet work station
> in a library at the University of Virginia.  This system was running
> Windoze 98 and the latest and greatest version of Netscape.

> If the tags signalling the beginning and ending of the Java Script are
> in compliance with standards, then Arachne will simply ignore the JS and
> display the page anyway.  This is the way things should be.

> To adhere to standards, what are the acceptable methods to indicate on a
> web page the beginning and ending of JS?

> Does anyone think that it may be possible, practical, or feasible for
> ISPs to monitor web pages for standards compliance so as to not permit
> the posting of pages that are not "standards-compliant" with respect to
> use of proper tags?  I think the www community would be very grateful to
> ISPs that would do this.

> Sam Heywood

I'm agree with Sam.
But I have somethink more.
Yesterday I was on <http://www.mail.com> (I want to get a short e-mail
 adress). But I haven't done this because pages on this server are using
Java Scripts. So I haven't get a short mail... :-((

Appealing to Michael Polak:
Can you say somethink about this? ;-)

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