- From: olivier Thereaux <ot@w3.org>
- Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2007 15:19:58 +0900
- To: Michael Behan <michael@healthsoftonline.com>, Chris Pederick <website@chrispederick.com>
- Cc: "www-validator@w3.org Community" <www-validator@w3.org>
Hi Michael, hi Chris. On Jul 26, 2007, at 05:41 , Michael Behan wrote: > Hello. I use the firefox web-developer toolbar along with the shortcut > ctrl+shift+a to post the current page to the validator. > > I noticed that in one case, the output of the validator was itself > invalid. Here is what I did: > > 1) I visited http://www.ddna.org/ OK. Let's call this "page 1" > 2) hit ctrl+shift+a > Came up valid OK, so far so good. Let's call this result document "page 2". Its URI is http://validator.w3.org/check and it has been accessed through POSTing the content. > 3) Hit ctrl+shift+a again on the w3.org validation results page What I have trouble understanding here is that the source shown in the result is not at all the content of page 2. I thought "validate local content" was uploading the actual content of the page to the validator, apparently here that's not the case. It looks as though the second time around, instead of posting the content of page 2, the toolbar requested validation of http:// validator.w3.org/check. This is not the behavior expected from "validate local content". http://validator.w3.org/check, when called with GET and with no parameter, is an error page saying "please give me something to validate". What you spotted is that this page is not valid. I will fix it. I am copying the mail to the developer of the mozilla toolbar (Hi Chris!), in case he knows what's going on with "validate local content". regards, -- olivier
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