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Firefox extension, HTML Validator (based on Tidy)

Posted: Sun Mar 27, 2005 12:28 pm
by Bill H
I just added this extension to my browser and it is quite cool, shows HTML errors and warnings for each web page you visit as a neat little message in the status bar. Unobtrusive, and quite interesting. The home page of this site has 48 warnings!

But that's nothing -- weather.com has something like 69 errors and 956 warnings on one page!

I'm actually using it to make sure the sites I manage are okay, and I like the unobtrusiveness yet ready availability of it. You can right-click on the statusbar message and select "view source" and it will list all of the errors and warnings as well as show the source with the e/w's highlighted.

It's also neat to see how sloppy some commercial sites are, though.
:P

Posted: Sun Mar 27, 2005 2:33 pm
by Ambush Commander
Hmm... I think I want this extension! I'm currently using Web Developer Tools FireFox Extension to validate HTML, but all it does is make it really easy to send HTML to other sites that do the work for you.

Hmm... you're right! This site doesn't validate! Looks like there's a mix of XHTML and HTML in here (I think I saw a few <br />s in the code, but this is HTML 4.01 we're talking about!)

Hmm... w3s validator doesn't seem to like this site either. I'd post this link: http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http% ... ork.net%2F but it doesn't work.

Posted: Sun Mar 27, 2005 8:45 pm
by SystemWisdom
Might be worth noting for the Windows users that this is a Linux-Only feature...

Posted: Sun Mar 27, 2005 8:48 pm
by Ambush Commander
Ah, I see... well, one more reason to get Linux of this really bad laptop of mine and onto its own partition on my true computer.

Posted: Sun Mar 27, 2005 10:22 pm
by Bill H
Might be worth noting for the Windows users that this is a Linux-Only feature...
I beg your pardon, I am using it on Win98se.

Posted: Sun Mar 27, 2005 10:32 pm
by SystemWisdom
:roll: Weird, it says it is for Linux-Only on the site, and it wouldn't work for me on XP :(

You are lucky!! :P

Posted: Sun Mar 27, 2005 10:35 pm
by Ambush Commander

Posted: Sun Mar 27, 2005 11:13 pm
by Roja
SystemWisdom wrote::roll: Weird, it says it is for Linux-Only on the site, and it wouldn't work for me on XP :(

You are lucky!! :P
Working for me on win2k.

Posted: Mon Mar 28, 2005 5:53 am
by SystemWisdom
:o Oooops, I had the wrong version apparently.. sorry guys, my mistake!!

Version releases

It was v0.52 that was for Linux only!!

Posted: Mon Mar 28, 2005 9:56 am
by Ambush Commander
Well, Mozilla Update has this annoying habit of being atrociously out of date.