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Unknown elements and attributes at top of the validation errors charts According to MAMA’s survey of validation of a few million web pages, the most common validation error is either “There is no attribute X” or “Element X undefined”. In other words, instances where the document uses elements or attributes which are not standard. As […]
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I like writing change logs: that’s usually a sign that a period of development for one of our tools is ending and that we are about to release the product of weeks, sometimes months, of work. This one is a winner… As we are releasing a new version of the W3C Link Checker, the additions […]
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I learned to write standard-compliant Web pages when the likely alternative was “the browser will likely crash on your tag soup”. In an age of graceful error recovery, does it still matter to produce valid code? Share your stories here.
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A few months ago, when a small group of people gathered to discuss about an idea that would later become the W3C Validator Donation and Sponsorship Program, one of the “design counstraints” we almost naturally gave ourselves was to strive for transparency. The W3C has sometimes been perceived as closed or secretive – partly because […]
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What's this new Validator Donation Program? Why a donation campaign? What would W3C do with that money? And isn't w3c really, really rich already anyway?
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For too long we struggled with the tension between “perfect support for standards” and “be cutting edge to help develop better new technologies”. With the latest version of our Markup Validator, integrating with the validator.nu engine, comes part of the solution.
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What if the CSS Validator didn't exist, what if we decided to build it from scratch today. What would it be? What would you make it to be?
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Not in Mandelieu for the W3C TPAC? You can still listen to the plenary day presentations, and even discuss with others on the IRC channel.
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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.
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Good news come in twos: Within the span of a mere few weeks we have seen the opening of Opera's Web Standards Curriculum, and, announced today, the creation by the Web Standards Project of its WaSP Curriculum Framework as a follow-up to the publication of their education survey result. It's a good time to be a student in Web technologies…
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