- From: Terje Bless <link@tss.no>
- Date: Wed, 22 Sep 1999 17:47:24 +0200
- To: Liam Quinn <liam@htmlhelp.com>
- cc: Ann Navarro <ann@webgeek.com>, Uriel Wittenberg <uw@urielw.com>, www-validator@w3.org
On 22.09.99 at 10:27, Liam Quinn <liam@htmlhelp.com> wrote:
>Ann Navarro wrote:
>
>>they don't use the W3C Validator source
>
>note that both validators use the same SGML parser. Everything else about
>the validators is mostly just dressing up what the SGML parser spits out.
Exactly! If you pass one you should pass the other. Anything else is a bug!
>>it wouldn't be wise to do so. Their programming techniques may very well
>>be up to par with the W3C version, but then again, they might overlook
>>something, or not be as fine tuned as the W3C version
>
>Or it might be better than the W3C version.
And since Liam is too modest to say it himself: the WDG Validator _is_
better then the W3C one! Fairly significantly too.
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