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Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2001 14:20:00 +0100 (BST)
From: Nick Kew <nick@webthing.com>
To: Samuel RinnetmŠki <samuel.rinnetmaki@tothepoint.fi>
cc: www-validator@w3.org, jim@jibbering.com
Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0109201404370.2256-100000@fenris.webthing.com>
Subject: Re: Validation as a Browser Plugin for MSIE
On Thu, 20 Sep 2001, Samuel RinnetmŠki wrote:
> >The likely suggestion is that you do not have MSXML registered for some
> >reason, or it's a version different to the one we expect.
>
> >http://jibbering.com/msxml/ should prompt you to install version 3,
>
> Yep, this worked for me. (Although the first time I tried it only
> prompted "null" and didn't proceed. On the second try, the installation
> prompt appeared.)
OK, thanks for this feedback. I'll update the page to point to that.
> >which it certainly works with, I'll get the code changed to better report
> >errors aswell, and we should track this one down.
Thanks. I think I may have been premature in posting about this.
> Now, when I validate a document, I get a nice Site Valet Report. The
> first thing that bugs me is that the report window is "always on top".
> And, if I use the real browser window to navigate on another page, the
> report window closes. This is not the way the dialogs and windows
> normally work.
All of this (and your third point) is subject to review, and may very well
change. In fact I tend to agree with your comments myself :-)
> The second bug is, that each time I try and validate a document, I always
> get the results for the first page I validated. I have to restart IE to
> validate another document.
My fault - that doesn't happen for me, but as soon as you said it
I can see what's wrong. Will fix that as soon as I have a spare moment
(and definitely today).
> Nice concept, however
Thanks. Jim's original idea; my bugs on top of his prototype ;-)
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Nick Kew
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