Posted by ato_zee on 10/12/06 18:22

On 12-Oct-2006, Jeremy <jeremy0505@gmail.com> wrote:

> That's fine, I have no problems with needing to correct the code, but i
> do wonder about the reliability of these checkers - I would assume that
> the one at w3.org would be the definitive?

I use the W3C one. but also have CSE HTML Validator Pro v6.0 100.
W3C seems comprehensive, but you should also use their
stylesheet validator, for full validation.
CSE HTML Validator, as their website points out, finds things that
W3C misses. Like mis-spellings, 7 numbers for colour values etc.
That said I usually use CSE validator at the final stages, it tends
to overwhelm you with warnings and errors, it's main value is it's
batch mode which can check 30 (or more pages), with a few
mouse clicks, to select all the html's in a local folder, and produce
a nice report.
So once the local copy of the site is clean, I run it in batch mode,
before uploading, just to check I haven't made any typo's or
introduced errors. You can't do batch mode at W3C.

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