pageoneresults - 3:55 pm on Jul 1, 2002 (gmt 0)

A little off topic, but I wanted to provide a response we received from our statistics provider.

> Unfortunately, JavaScript is not designed to pass HTML compliance. The reason for this is JavaScript is not HTML. Therefore, your HTML code will still pass W3C compliance. The JavaScript on your page should not be tested for W3C compliance since this is only for HTML code.

Our response...

Unfortunately it is not the JavaScript that is failing HTML compliance. It was a <noscript> tag that had unescaped ampersands. We've corrected the issue and will see if it interferes with the tracking code. If it does not, then great, we may decide to promote *************. If it does interfere, then we will find a product that understands the need to write valid HTML and can provide us with error free HTML.

The JavaScript itself does not get checked when validating. I can't believe you would send such an amateur response to the problem. Maybe we'll publish this in our review of the product. I personally would have sought a solution and then responded with a fix.