Posted by cwdjrxyz on 10/13/06 00:52

Jeremy wrote:
> I am using Firefox with the developer tools for validating the
> documents. I can get a clean bill of health on there but then when I
> paste the document into (as an example) the validator here
> http://validator.w3.org/ I get presented with a bunch more issues (such
> as the document not being valid XHTML 1.0 Transitional.
>
> 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 have also been playing with CSE HTML Validator Lite 3.5, which again
> finds errors/warnings that the Firefox validator misses.
>
> Is the Firefox validator just "not quite up to it"?
>
> Appeciate any tips or references to other validation utilities.

To get a more complete discussions concerning validators and some other
related issues that have not been brought up in this thread, the W3C's
page http://validator.w3.org/docs/help.html may be helpful.

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