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Re: HTML Validator and CythiaSays

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From: John Britsios
Date: Oct 30, 2003 1:54PM

For most people, CSE HTML Validator is better than the W3C or WDG validators as it checks more and finds more potential problems. It's also easier to use. With one check, it is checking HTML syntax, CSS syntax, spelling, and hyperlinks.

See http://www.htmlvalidator.com/htmlval/whycseisbetter.html

John
----- Original Message -----
From: Karl Groves
To: <EMAIL REMOVED>
Sent: Monday, October 27, 2003 2:45 PM
Subject: RE: HTML Validator and CythiaSays


As Jukka already pointed out, the CSE "validator" is not a validator, it is a linter.
It also has a bad habit of displaying false warnings.

Validation for validation's sake is a pointless exercise. Its kind of like someone putting "table" as their table summary because Bobby tells them they need a table summary. ;-)

Submitting a page through a validator should be part of a process of quality assurance - i.e. checking to see if you've forgotten anything, messed up your nesting, misspelled an element or attribute, etc. For these purposes, the W3C or WDG validators are just fine.

Karl L. Groves, Certified Master CIW Designer
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