Posted by Stewart Gordon on 09/28/05 19:55

Big Bill wrote:
> On Sat, 24 Sep 2005 17:54:41 GMT, Spartanicus
> <invalid@invalid.invalid> wrote:
<snip>
>> Your referral leads to the abomination aka as CSE, a non DTD HTML
>> "checker" that falsely claims to be a validator.
>
> It's a linter, right? Why is it an abomination?
<snip>

The abomination is that it calls itself a validator when it isn't.

Indeed, linters and validators are quite distinct in purpose. See

http://webtips.dan.info/validators.html

Stewart.

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