- From: Brett Bieber <brett.bieber@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2007 21:17:39 -0500
- To: www-validator@w3.org
- Cc: "Kim Daugaard" <kim.daugaard@gmail.com>
On 9/24/07, Kim Daugaard <kim.daugaard@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I have a suggestion for making W3C validator even more attractive. > > We are making all html prototyping without any web server (hundreds of > pages). We can place a link to the 'Validate by file upload,' > http://validator.w3.org/#validate_by_upload on each page > (and we do) but we still have to browse for the file each time we want to > validate it. > > What I would like, was the ability to add the file name to the get-request > (using javascript, like: > http://validator.w3.org/#validate_by_upload?file=C:\folder\file.html > ), and have it filled into the file input field of the upload page. Then we > only need to press 'Check'. > > That would be really cool! > Hi Kim, Browsers do not support pre-populated (default values for) file input fields. As you can imagine, if this were possible it would be trivial to upload specific files off an end user's computer with malicious intentions. For security reasons, any file which is uploaded to a web site must be manually selected by the end user. Unfortunately you'll either have to manually select and upload the files for validation - or - look into one of the documented libraries for connecting to the Validator's API and create your own intermediate script which will upload the file to the validator, or send the file's content as direct input. http://validator.w3.org/docs/api.html#libs -- -Brett Bieber http:saltybeagle.com aim:ianswerq
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