*NEW* W3C Validator

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*NEW* W3C Validator

Topic Started: Nov 19 2009, 11:05 PM (109 Views)

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Nov 19 2009, 11:05 PM Post #1

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I'm sure that almost all of us have heard of the W3C (World Wide Web Consortium).

They are the people that decide what code it takes, and how it's all put together, to create what we are seeing when viewing a webpage (in a nutshell).

To ensure conformity with their standards, the W3C is kind enough to create online tools we can use to ensure our code is valid.

The goal is to to be able to display their icon(s) that mean:

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To show your readers that you have taken the care to create an interoperable Web page, you may display this icon on any page that validates.

Now, normally you would visit the Markup Validator to validate your (x)html. Then you would go over to their CSS Validator Service to check your Cascading Style Sheet.

Well, now the W3C has finally got their act together and has created an all-in-one validator!

UNICORN Unicorn is "The Web's Universal Conformance Checker".

About Unicorn:

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The goal of the Unicorn project is to to create a "universal validator" that will be able to validate and check multiple quality aspects of a document through a single Web interface.

According to the W3C:

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W3C, home to the development of the technical specifications known as Web Standards, historically also provides online tools and services to check that content published on the Web follows these specifications, as well as a number of other tools to improve the global quality of Web sites. The most popular are the Markup Validator, CSS Validator, Link Checker...

All these services are individually useful, but it is often cumbersome for developers of Web content to use them all sequentially and test as many aspects of Web quality as possible. The Unicorn Project aims to provide the big picture about the quality of a Web page, by gathering the results of all these tools into a single page.

The Unicorn does not replace each individual validator, it unifies them, and increases their usability by providing a one-step check for the many facets of Web Quality and Web Standards Conformance.

This is a way cool tool that I highly recommend everyone to try it out at least once.

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