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W3C Markup Validator Upgraded

Posted by timothy on from the these-guys-have-some-say-in-the-matter dept.

comforteagle writes "The W3C has upgraded their markup validation service to include easier navigation, official bug tracking support, 'verbose' error messages, fixed output bugs, and improved documentation. Aside from simply using the W3C's site you can download your own version. Mmmm "banana flavor"."

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  1. CSS3 support by POWRSURG · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Would be nice if they had CSS3 (instead of CSS2) support for validating turned on by default. A bit quirky, but it is at least better then before. Now it generates warnings instead of errors for valid CSS3 that it doesn't implement.

    I wondered when /. was going to mention this. It's been around for at least few days now.

  2. Re:From the release notes... by Vaevictis666 · · Score: 2, Interesting
    TinyURL points to a check on slashdot, but that could change at any time :P

    Of course, we already know that /. is not up-to-date for good html, but meh.

  3. Re:From the release notes... by Carnildo · · Score: 3, Interesting

    By playing around with the "doctype" menu on the validator, it looks like Slashdot is most likely written using HTML 4.01 transitional (149 errors), and least likely to be written using XHTML 1.0 Basic (2216 errors). Maybe the editors should change the "doctype" declaration for the pages.

    --
    "They redundantly repeated themselves over and over again incessantly without end ad infinitum" -- ibid.