Just a moment... W3C Validator nolonger works in Any Browser -- a Nu incompatibility

Hello,
    What is the point in standards if their purpose is not to allow users to choose their own software and still be compatible with everything else?  For over a year, now, Validator has been broken in all of the browsers that I use, including W3M, Lynx, and Links (mainly W3M I use).  I used to try to encourage sites to validate their code in order to help promote support for accessibility tools and whatever else the user wishes to use on their computer.

    With the Validator itself now having become one of the latest in a long list of sites to become incompatible with simple hypertext browsers such as W3M, this has thoroughly undermined my efforts to try to keep encouraging the World-Wide Web to remain compatible world-wide, and has left me feeling like "What is the point in standards if the standards bodies /themselves/ can't even get it right?"

    This is what I see in W3M upon submitting a URL to validate:-
(title is "Just a moment...")
> Refresh (390 sec)
> Enable JavaScript and cookies to continue

    That's it -- just a title and 2 lines.  I used to see the entire validation results there; now I just see this.  Cookies are enabled.  JavaScript should not be necessary here, seeing as it was not necessary for decades prior.

    What needs to be done to fix this problem?  What is the Validator now using JavaScript for?  And how can we make this usage of JavaScript /optional/ again?

    Furthermore, the Validator is even broken in my fallback browser that I use called Uzbl.  This one does have support for JavaScript, /and/ both JavaScript /and/ cookies are enabled in it -- yet all it shows these days is a blank white page.  Uzbl is not my preferred browser; W3M is.  But finding that the Validator is now so thoroughly broken as to be completely unusable in all 4 of the browsers that I use, this brings to my attention that there is a very serious issue here and therefore I am informing you with the hope that it can be fixed.

    My understanding is that the incompatibility problems that I have experienced here are specific to the version of the Validator known as "Nu".

Kind regards,
James R. Haigh.
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