- From: Jukka K. Korpela <jkorpela@cs.tut.fi>
- Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2005 15:36:56 +0300 (EEST)
- To: www-validator@w3.org
On Thu, 16 Jun 2005, Rick Beton wrote: > In addition, the Firefox HTML Tidy plugin is very helpful when > developing dynamic content and trying to validate it. It gives its > validation result immediately in the browser's status bar. Does it? I didn't notice. > However, it's not as thorough a validator as the W3C's, so I always use > it in conjunction with the Web Developer Toolbar > local file upload to > the W3C Validator. HTML Tidy will tell you when your pages are wrong, > but not when they are right, if you see what I mean. The Firefox HTML Tidy plugin, misleadingly called a validator, contains several errors, and it issues misleading (and even wrong) messages especially if you use the (misnamed) "accessibility validation" features. For example, if you have <a href= "foobar"> (i.e., a quoted attribute value appearing at the start of a line), the plugin wrongly complains as if you had <a href=" foobar"> (i.e., a line break at the start of a quoted attribute value). Not wanting to start a debate over the plugin (or HTML Tidy), I just want to emphasize that it is _not_ a validator, although some of its functions may be similar to those of markup validator. -- Jukka "Yucca" Korpela, http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/
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