Re: Validator.nu milestones

Hi Henri,

Thanks -- I'll get this info added to the HTML4->HTML5 history
page I set up.

  --Mike

Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>, 2008-02-04 16:49 +0200:

> 
>  Hi,
> 
>  I finally got around to digging up the dates related to Validator.nu.
> 
>  http://hsivonen.iki.fi/validator/ went up on 2005-04-24 and became public 
>  knowledge on 2005-04-26 at the latest (most likely already on 2005-04-25).
> 
>  I first mentioned it on the WHATWG list on 2005-04-29.
> 
>  The earliest documentation record of HTML parsing that I found is from 
>  2005-08-26.
> 
>  I can't find a record of the HTML5 schema first appearing in the presets. 
>  :-(
> 
>  The earliest record I have of the HTML5-specific UI facet being public is 
>  from 2006-04-27.
> 
>  I announced a development version of what became the Validator.nu HTML 
>  parser on 2007-07-11.
> 
>  I announced Validator.nu on 2007-07-22:
>  http://krijnhoetmer.nl/irc-logs/html-wg/20070722#l-149
> 
>  -- 
>  Henri Sivonen
>  hsivonen@iki.fi
>  http://hsivonen.iki.fi/
> 
> 
> 

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