New W3C Validator

[Rower_CPU]

For those of you who validate your sites regularly (and that should be everyone), the W3C announced a new version of their (X)HTML validation service.

The new 0.6.5 version has several changes:

* General
- New style (dubbed "banana skin"), new (simpler) navigation mechanisms
- Bug tracking system now officially supported
- Updating and expanding catalog of supported character encoding and
document types

* Features / Bug fixes
- Additional explanations for error messages in "verbose" mode -
contributed by the www-validator community -.
- Addition of a new fallback mechanism when doctype or charset is
missing
- Fixed broken markup output bugs
- Internationalization improvements, other small fixes

* Documentation
- A FAQ (NEW, added to the help page) lists a lot of the usual
validation problems
- The installation documentation (NEW) and general reorganization of
the download/install/develop documentation makes it much easier to
install the markup validator locally - and contribute to its
development
- Users' documentation has also been updated

It's always nice to see an improvement in a free, and very helpful service such as this.

 

[aus_dave]

It looks good, I liked the old site too but some of the new features sound useful.

I did a quick check on Google to see how errors are handled by non-valid sites .

No DOCTYPE, what a disgrace .