Re: Suggestion for the validator

From: Thanasis Kinias (tkinias@optimalco.com)
Date: Thu, Jun 21 2001

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    Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2001 21:32:56 -0700
    From: Thanasis Kinias <tkinias@optimalco.com>
    To: Tom Kelleher <kelleher@tkelleher.com>, www-validator@w3.org
    Message-id: <01062021325605.01398@localhost.localdomain>
    Subject: Re: Suggestion for the validator
    
    On Wednesday 20 June 2001 08:38, Tom Kelleher wrote:
    > Everyone,
    >
    > Nice job on this tool. VERY useful to have.  We may make validating a key
    > part of our system review for our web development team.
    >
    > Suggestion:  In addition to uploading HTML files, would it be possible to
    > simply copy and paste HTML into a textbox?  In our case, our site is
    > entirely password protected -- so we can't just send the URL through your
    > main interface.  That forces us to view the source for each page, *save it
    > to a file* and then upload the file (and then later delete the file).  It
    > would be nice to drop out the extra steps -- and just copy the source and
    > input it into a textbox, and have the validator go to work on it.
    
    Another short-cut -- available only in Opera -- is a right-click option to 
    validate the current page.  It submits the source from the cache to the W3C 
    Validation Service, just as if you used the file upload.  It only requires a 
    single right-click, however.
    
    HTH,
    -- 
    Thanasis Kinias
    Vice President & Manager of Information Systems
    Optimal LLC
    Scottsdale, Arizona, USA