[thelist] Hiring Eye Opener - Web Skills Testing (long)

rudy r937 at interlog.com
Tue Feb 26 08:51:00 CST 2002


> tHIS sORT oF tHING hAPPENS aLL tHE tIME.

<tip type="Caps Lock Problems">
pry the bloody caps lock key off your keyboard -- so that you will know
when your left pinky has accidentally hit it
</tip>


regarding skill testing...

a friend of mine on another list once gathered "typical errors" and built a
page with them, the object being to let the students see if they could find
them all, sort of like an easter egg hunt

here are the items i contributed to his collection

~ class keyword typo "calss"
~ table width=800 (gives horizontal scroll at 800x600)
~ td nowrap (blows up the layout)
~ td align=centre (canadians won't see what's wrong)
~ <table valign=top> (won't validate)
~ <table width=100% align=right> totally screws up layout
~ <a name=here></a> inside a table (jumps to top of table)
~ image with a space in the filename
~ font face that doesn't exist on every machine
~ td bgcolor="#purple"
~ <!-- improperly closed comment -- >
~ extra set of <html> or <body> tags
~ <a href="#"> around an entire table </a>
~ spacer.gif that's actually white, not transparent
~ two radio buttons with different names
~ two checkboxes with the same name
~ form elements (e.g. dropdown) without <form> tag
~ css-positioned A (hotlink area is elsewhere)
~ parentheses instead of square brackets in a dom reference
      e.g. document.images(2).src = foobar.gif
~ ye olde netscape SPACER tag
~ typos like <BL0CKQUOTE>  (zero for oh)
~ <a name=top></a>  but then  <a href="top">Top</a>
~ an animated gif that starts with a blank frame
     (on a browser with "play animations" turned off)
~ <img src=1pixelblue.gif width=100%> as an <hr> replacement

admittedly some of these are not suitable for entry level testing

and some of them aren't "errors"

rudy
http://rudy.ca/




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