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on Sun, 29 Aug 1999 finsol@ts.co.nz wrote >http://www.y2kinfo.com/journal/features/0499_amona.html This is recommended reading, and the URLs of non-compliant JavaScript were highly amus^H^H^H disturbing. Especially where the examples are being publicly offered for people to copy. Interesting was the point about different JScript versions giving different results, but I don't have enough experience yet to confirm this. Give me another few days :) 4 months to go, and garbage scripts being written daily I daresay - some of the "shopping trolley" sites I've been browsing this weekend are even riddled with HTML errors, let alone the JS/CGI. It might be a good idea next January to postpone forays into e-commerce, until a few kinks have been sorted out. Oh - some of the worst offenders are those offering web expertise ... :Dave Eastabrook Original post on csy2k

-- Desertj98 (jturner@ptway.com), August 30, 1999

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