- From: The Jabberwock <jabberwock@tenebrous.com>
- Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2007 02:25:04 -0400
- To: olivier Thereaux <ot@w3.org>
- CC: Chris Pederick <website@chrispederick.com>, "www-validator@w3.org Community" <www-validator@w3.org>
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 That's very interesting! Thank you for the heads up, and your expedient response. Take care - -Michael olivier Thereaux wrote: > 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 > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGqD5AYUsvh+hDb0ARAgcaAKDK2WPCSItc1RfWFNNpZ7fPViWUrACglCtC S8eNaqhVehxcRRKcGUvHwJU= =w9dO -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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