The w3c Validator has been a part of just about every bit of HTML/xHTML I’ve written in years now. So much so that I usually install a version locally to speed things up. To that end, I’ve installed the latest beta version of the validator on htmlfixit. The official stable version is 0.7.4, however the version running here is 0.8.0. It doesn’t sound like much, but it’s a completely different kettle of fish. Different better error message explanations, a new fresher look and so on.

Try it out, in the very least it’s great to see the direction they are heading in and while it may not be a “stable” release, it is certainly usable and in my brief experience so far quite beneficial. In particular the new explanations make it a worthwhile exercise all by themselves. The Validator has been added to the htmlfixit online tools menu for convenience. Unless I find some very good reason not to, I’ll be using this version to do all my validating from now on.

This article was posted on Wednesday, June 27th, 2007 at 3:21 am