- From: Nick Kew <nick@webthing.com>
- Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2006 17:33:26 +0000
- To: Steven Pemberton <steven.pemberton@cwi.nl>
- Cc: www-validator@w3.org, Håkon Lie <howcome@opera.com>
On Monday 13 February 2006 16:22, Steven Pemberton wrote: > Terje Bless wrote: > >> It seems to me that it would be easy using the media type to direct > >> files to the correct validator. As it is this message is misleading > >> because the W3C validating service does support CSS. > > > > While there is, obviously, a W3C CSS validator, the W3C Markup Validation > > Service does not, for obvious reasons, support checking CSS. > > I don't follow the "for obvious reasons". How about "for practical reasons"? The CSS validator is implemented in Java and requires a whole different infrastructure to the HTML service. A redirect to the CSS service works, but browsers are funny (both rightly so and in terms of bugs) about redirecting POSTs. So the only way to integrate this transparently - short of total reimplementation - would be to proxy the CSS service. That's at best an additional load on the server. Yes, a new CSS validator written in C or a scripting language has been discussed - and we even made contact with the author of libcroco (the most interesting-looking CSS library). But noone has found time to hack it. -- Nick Kew
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