- From: Lachlan Hunt <lachlan.hunt@lachy.id.au>
- Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2005 18:38:02 +1000
- To: Jirka Kosek <jirka@kosek.cz>
- CC: www-validator@w3.org
Jirka Kosek wrote: > http://badame.vse.cz/validator/ > > there is available a new validating service which is able to catch much > more errors than W3C validator. No, it reports a lot more bogus errors than the W3C validator, particularly with HTML4. But then again, it's not really an SGML validator, so I wouldn't expect it to do a great job with it. Personally, I'd change its name from an HTML validator to XHTML validator, since it only really works with XHTML. However, it also doesn't support XHTML 1.1. The only error I could find that this catches, which the W3C validator doesn't, is unencoded ampersands in XHTML. Also, what is the purpose of the "dirty parser" option? Is that for people that don't really want to be told their pages are invalid, so they'll be parsed as tag soup and given a pass regardless? It seems like a pretty useless option to me, I'd remove it. -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au/
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