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Rower_CPU
Aug 30, 2003, 01:12 AM
http://validator.w3.org:8001/

This great resource for web designers is getting some new features and functionality. Check it out - especially the new "fussy parsing" mode in the extended interface, which really puts your design to the test.

And for you web designers not already using the validator (or a derivative), shame on you. :p


Doctor Q
Aug 30, 2003, 01:26 AM
Boy did it complain about the MacRumors home page! A thousand problems reported. Example: It complained that the spacer images didn't have ALT tags:<IMG SRC="http://www.macrumors.com/images/pix.gif" WIDTH="1" HEIGHT="1">and it misidentified the strings following ampersands within anchors (e.g., &theadid)
as invalid entities:<a href="http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=36362&powermac-g5">I guess this isn't the type of page for which it was intended.
tazo
Aug 30, 2003, 01:29 AM
it found 74 errors just on the homepage of my site. lol.


trivial things but errors nonetheless :D
Doctor Q
Aug 30, 2003, 01:46 AM
I found a page it actually liked: itself! No complaints at all.

I guess I've seen the two extremes: decidedly unhappy and deliriously happy.

It finds 67 "errors" on the Apple home page, including more mistaken complaints about entities. Sample complaint: missing name attribute in this option element:<option selected value="/find/#world">Choose...</option>
James.Paul
Aug 30, 2003, 03:56 AM
It's just pulled my site apart!!!!!! Errors galore! Strewth!!! Have I got some work to do!
robbieduncan
Aug 30, 2003, 06:10 AM
Did not see any difference with this validator on my site. The pages I checked are still perfect XHTML!
pivo6
Aug 30, 2003, 06:35 AM
It found 12 errors on my homepage on my site, and I used Dreamweaver MX to put it together. I'm sort of learning HTML at the moment so this info is useful to me.
OutThere
Aug 30, 2003, 10:26 AM
Ahhhhh. Yes. I was waiting for one of these for a long time, I have a lot of hand-coded HTML that strikes me as being rather buggy....I guess i'll see.:D



Edit: Hoo Hoo. 1 error in my latest website! Ha.
MrMacMan
Aug 30, 2003, 12:07 PM
Woo!

Only 425 Errors!

:eek: :eek: :eek: :eek:

Daaaammmnnnnnnnnn.


There is no way I can fix all of that, and much of their stuff is site wide....

Damn Xanga non-compliance.

:o
LethalWolfe
Aug 30, 2003, 12:22 PM
D'oh!

At first glance I thought this thread was about the "Best WarCraft 3 Vibrator" :o


Lethal
MrMacMan
Aug 30, 2003, 11:13 PM
Originally posted by LethalWolfe
D'oh!

At first glance I thought this thread was about the "Best WarCraft 3 Vibrator" :o


Lethal

:eek:

Did you just get up or something or are you hitting the whiskey too much?

:p