Posted by David Dorward on 10/13/06 07:00

John Hosking wrote:

> I'm very confused. I, too use the validator in the Web Developer Toolbar
> (that's what you mean, right?). When I do, a window opens up showing a
> report for the subject page at
>
http://validator.w3.org/check?verbose=1&uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.example.com%2F

That is the W3C Markup Validation service ...

> I am sure I never changed the default validator, or had to specify
> w3.org. How come the OP sees a difference, and someone like Spartanicus
> says, "Both CSE and the Firefox "validator" are not validators at all?"

.... when people talk about the Firefox validator they usually mean
http://users.skynet.be/mgueury/mozilla/ which (unless you use the beta and
turn the right options is) is based around Tidy, which isn't a validator
(and is rather buggy).

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