Re:Mobile Validator Server Error

At 01:21 AM 11/14/2006, Dominique Hazael-Massieux wrote:
>Actually, the problem was that the checker didn't like HTML 4.01 input;
>I made it less fussy and it now sends a proper report:
>http://validator.w3.org/mobile/?uri=http%3A%2F%
>2Fwww.elementary-group-standards.com

It is still fussy: I clicked on the link and got:

         Internal Server Error

But apart from that minor quibble, this is an excellent tool. I tried 
it on my mobile web design lecture notes, which I use to teach 
students at the Australian National University 
<http://www.tomw.net.au/2006/wd/mobile.shtml> and got very useful 
results 
<http://validator.w3.org/mobile/?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.tomw.net.au%2F2006%2Fwd%2Fmobile.shtml>.

I see the introduction for the tool says "the document needs to be 
well-formed and valid XHTML to get interesting results". Perhaps you 
could invoke the W3C XHTML validation tool first 
<http://validator.w3.org/>. If it passes that test, then invoke your 
the mobile validation. If that is too complicated to automate you 
could include suggest people do XHTML validation first and include a 
link to the validator.

That should save you a lot of spurious problems as most people will 
not understand the need for well formed XHTML. Also is it just any 
XHTML, or do they need to have XHTML Strict, or Basic 
<http://www.tomw.net.au/blog/2006/11/xhtml-basic-11-is-less-basic-but-is-it.html>? 




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Received on Wednesday, 15 November 2006 22:24:58 UTC