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.
