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Article #46Re: Problem with Netscape 4.7
From: Dr John Stockton
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 22:17
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 22:17
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JRS: In article <3ae3eb51.282872@west.usenetserver.com>, seen in news:demon.homepages.authoring, Jim Ley <jim@jibbering.com> wrote at Mon, 23 Apr 2001 08:45:26 :- > >No, You don't run the javascript in the server, you take the current >state of the document tree converted to HTML (using innerHTML, or in >some way constructed if you want to stay strict DOM2) and send that >HTML to the validator, I certainly wouldn't suggest having the >validator process the javascript - it would be possible of course, but >as you say not desirable. > Given that much of the aim of javascript is to generate suitable document.write() (etc.) contents, ISTM that a validator for that would be very desirable; but as JS is a general programming language ISTM that a validator might not be possible, at least for pages with reader input. One help would be a browser that was rigorous in reporting errors but then liberal in recovering from them. As for a compiler, the first error reported should be reliable; the rest might depend on it but often would clearly not. But recovery could even be user-aided - "I don't like the code there; should it be this or that or else?". New DynWrite is in ... -- � John Stockton, Surrey, UK. jrs@merlyn.demon.co.uk Turnpike v4.00 MSIE 4 � <URL: http://www.jibbering.com/faq/> FAQ for comp.lang.javascript by Jim Ley. <URL: http://www.merlyn.demon.co.uk/js-index.htm> Javascript maths, sources. <URL: http://www.merlyn.demon.co.uk/> TP/BP/Delphi/JS/&c., FAQ topics, links.
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