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HTML 5, a new step
HTML 5 conformance checking has been integrated into the beta W3C Markup Validator.
Filed on August 26, 2008 11:41 AM in Bugs Life, HTML, Tools
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Markup Validator Updated
New release for W3C's most popular open source service: fewer bugs, more document types supported, more fun to hack with, and a few other goodies in the mix.
Filed on August 8, 2008 1:11 PM in Bugs Life, HTML, HTTP, Tools
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life without MIME type sniffing?
In a recent item on IE8 Security, Eric Lawrence, Security Program Manager for Internet Explorer, introduced a work-around to the security risks associated with content-type sniffing: an authoritative=true parameter on the Content-Type header in HTTP. This re-started discussion of...
Filed on July 7, 2008 5:19 PM in Bugs Life, HTML, Web Architecture
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Improving Interoperability by Short Release Cycle
When a software is shipped, it has bugs. There are many reasons for these bugs. It can be poor in-house development, it can be careless testing, it can be unclear specifications, and many other things. We have to live with these bugs in software. Is there a way out?
Filed on July 7, 2008 12:53 AM in Bugs Life, HTML, Opinions & Editorial, Technology 101
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Unescape HTML Entities in Python
I'm not a real programmer, but here a piece of python code to unescape html entities in an XHTML file and convert them to utf-8.
Filed on April 8, 2008 2:21 AM in Bugs Life, Tools, XML
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CSS Validator gets an update
More than 50 bugs closed, a polished User Interface, and some useful core changes: the CSS validator got a great update, but did it have to take a year? Let's look at what is slowing down, and where you can help, too.
Filed on March 18, 2008 3:18 PM in Bugs Life, CSS, Tools
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HTML WG members working together
Web standards are made by people. They interact, discuss, debate. They find issues, argue about them and finally try to settle down on what should be done. In the end, eventually it would be specified properly in a W3C Working Draft and then implemented in an interoperable way. It takes time and energy. I give here an example of a recent discussion between members of the HTML WG.
Filed on March 13, 2008 1:12 AM in Bugs Life, HTML, Opinions & Editorial
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Unexpected Kanji Rotation
Recently, my XML editor gave me a surprise. This is how it should display Kanji characters: However, this is how it displayed in the editor's source text: The issue is that in the source text, the Kanji characters are rotated...
Filed on November 20, 2007 1:34 AM in Bugs Life, Opinions & Editorial, Tools
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Shorttags - the odd side of HTML 4.01
Validation can be a very useful way to detect typos in markup... unless the typos disguise as shorttags, one of the little known features of HTML, valid but misunderstood by most browsers. Fortunately, there is hope, whether one prefers to author XHTML and never worry about shorttags, or stick to HTML.
Filed on October 9, 2007 4:42 PM in Bugs Life, HTML
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Log Validator 1.2: new features we didn't know we wanted.
On the occasional benefit of opening a mostly-internal tool to some odd feature request: a new Log Validator sees the day, with plenty of bugs fixed.
Filed on September 10, 2007 9:10 AM in Bugs Life
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Validator 0.8.0 upgrade notes
The next version of the Markup Validator is gearing up for an upcoming release, and a really nice one. For those who are already maintaining an instance of the validator and want to play with it during the upcoming Beta test, or want to upgrade after the release, these notes will give a quick few steps to prepare the dependencies for the new validator.
Filed on April 4, 2007 5:47 AM in Bugs Life
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SAXing up the Markup Validator: from Validator to Conformance Checker
One of the main weaknesses of the Markup Validator is, it's a validator. That is, it compares documents to a machine-readable grammar of the markup language in use. The faster, leaner architecture we have been working on in the past months finally make it possible to check conformance criteria beyond the mere grammar-based validation. But would the validator still be a validator?
Filed on March 29, 2007 2:38 AM in Bugs Life
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