Posted by Peterken on 12/11/05 22:03

"Ed" <ex@directory> wrote in message
news:Urednctt6YcqHgHeRVnyrQ@pipex.net...
> 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
>

www.javascript.com
www.webreference.com
and soooo many others

just try googling some, thousands come out

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