- From: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>
- Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2009 15:17:03 +0300
- To: www-validator Community <www-validator@w3.org>
On Mar 23, 2009, at 00:21, olivier Thereaux wrote: > Dean Edridge asked a good question (tantamount to “why not just use > validator.nu and scrap the rest”) to which I answered: > [[ The validator.nu engine is a wonderful piece of software, in many > ways superior to the other engines which validator.w3.org uses. > However, IMHO validator.nu is neither stable enough (see e.g http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-validator/2009Mar/0037.html > ) nor flexible enough (limited number of profiles, The limited number of profiles is a deployment feature. I think mobile profiles are bad for the Web which is why I removed XHTML Basic and haven't added SVG Tiny. However, it's not an engine issue. If you have profiled schemas, the engine can use them. > no DTD support for legacy HTML, etc) That's also a feature. :-) > nor usable enough (bare bone UI Again, I think the bareness of http://html5.validator.nu/ is a feature. It has a link to http://validator.nu/ which may be too hairy for casual users. > and limited message explanations, Waiting for upstream... :-/ > no file upload, no direct input, etc) As Dean already pointed out, Validator.nu has both. (They require JavaScript, though.) -- Henri Sivonen hsivonen@iki.fi http://hsivonen.iki.fi/
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