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My site still validates!

Zeldman announces a new validator: Markup Validation Service v0.6.5 [Beta #1]. AKA the "Zeldman Made Us Do It!" edition of the online markup validation service.

It also shows more human friendly messages: overheid.nl (site with around the 100 "markup problems"). Next to the warning message stands a discription how you can send a better warning message to the W3C, which eventually will improve the validator.

Some people are against this new validator, since it is incorrecet with the specification, but I think it's good, 'cause people don't want to know about the specification, they want to know what markup errors could give problems in browsers and not what browsers should support :).

My site (off course..) still validates. Yours?

30th August 2003

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  1. Mine too!
    Though I don't understand why it still has my page validated as text/html.

    Permalink · 2003-08-30 09:34:54 · Arthur!

  2. I have that same problem. For a solution you have to look two topics back ;). Apperently the W3C validator hasn't got application/xhtml+xml in their accept header. It must be send to it that way, otherwise it's just text/html.

    Permalink · 2003-08-30 09:47:45 · Anne

  3. Yup, mine still validates.
    But I think they should make it clearer what the fussy parser means. To say a site doesn't validate when the parser is fussier than the specification is causing confusion. Of course I agree to being fussy, because it usually means better code.

    And has the accept header bug been submitted?

    Permalink · 2003-08-30 11:44:29 · Ben

  4. Well, I am fussy, too :))
    Validates fine as application/xhtml+xml

    Permalink · 2003-08-30 11:49:24 · Minz Meyer

  5. Minz, are you using the PHP-version or the .htaccess-version of MIME-type application/xml+xhtml?

    I myself have used the PHP-version...

    Permalink · 2003-08-30 12:25:36 · Arthur!

  6. Arthur,
    same with me! My hosting company doesn't allow too much playing around with server settings and .htaccess files, unfortunately.

    Permalink · 2003-08-30 13:09:27 · Minz Meyer

  7. They I don't understand why my site doesn't show application/xml+xhtml on validation.

    Permalink · 2003-08-30 19:06:44 · Arthur!

  8. Arthur, I am doing sort of Browser sniffing for the W3C Validator. It is mentioned several times here: Upcoming redesign and xml-stylesheet testcase.

    Permalink · 2003-08-30 22:12:44 · Minz Meyer

  9. BTW, anne,
    there is always an xml error in action.php when submitting an URL.

    Permalink · 2003-08-30 22:13:35 · Minz Meyer

  10. Mine doesn't.
    Missing DTD's.

    Permalink · 2003-08-30 22:34:18 · Jacques Distler

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