Posted by Ed on 12/11/05 21:53

cwdjrxyz@yahoo.com wrote:
> deetisrikanth1@gmail.com wrote:
>
>>WELCOME to The JAVASCRIPT PLANET which is a page where I plan to
>>publish as many JavaScripts (and maybe some other cool stuff like VRML,
>>
>>Animated GIFs) as possible, please contribute a JavaScript if you've
>>got something useful. Just paste the code into the textbox and push the
>>
>>Send button! Your contribution will be published on a separate page,
>>with your name and comment, within a week (usually).
>
>
> There are quite a few Javascript sites with codes to copy and paste. Of
> course many here think you should know how to write script yourself
> before you use it on a web page so that you will understand the
> advantages and limitations of the script. Despite that, we all know
> that many, especially hobby web page writers, will copy a script from
> where they can find it, even though they know nothing about scripts -
> at least when they start.
>
> With the above background, I find most of the large copy-and-paste JS
> sites have scripts from many sources and that range from decent to
> awful quality. There is no quality control, and this is a bad thing for
> people just starting to use script. All scripts and associated html
> code sometimes required should at least validate on the W3C html and
> css validators, which often is not the case. Many scripts on some of
> these sites seem to date back to html 3.2 days - for example they use
> <script> as used in html 3.2 rather than the now standard <script
> type="text/javascript">. They often rely on "evaluate" which is not
> much used anymore, and on and on. Such scripts should be brought up to
> date or not included. Of course the original author of the script may
> not be available or willing to rewrite it. Thus editing a large site to
> bring it up to current quality standards is a difficult job that few
> would have the time or desire to undertake.
>
> My comments are not directed to your site, but to JS copy-and-paste
> sites in general.
>

For a non techie over 50 guy like me, struggling to learn about new
stuff, this site is great. For sure, a number of the scripts are bad,
but even so, this single point of call is a great starter. I don't
know of any other single source that I can go to.. Do you?

Ed

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