On Monday 10 November 2003 08:25, Tal, Shachar wrote: > I believe w3c.org has an HTML/XHTML/strict etc. validator online, so this > can be verified online by users
> > How about starting, through Hamakor, some kind of a rating / > > certification > > system for Israeli Web sites to check if they are GNU/Linux > > / Open Source > > friendly. > > > > I mean, can be viewed with GNU/Linux tools (like Konqueror, > > Mozilla etc.) > > without any special changes. This is not exactly the same thing. one major problem with W3 validator (and the people who keep refering to it as a compatibility testing tool ;-) is that it has a very high Signal/Noise ratio. It complains about a lot of stuff that browsers today take for granted and make no fuss about. OTOH, FOSS browsers are not all that superior when it comes down to standard support. oh, they do try - but at the end of the day you'd find a lot of uses of perfectly leagal *TML that break on them, and also a lot of pages that will completly fail any validator but still work reasonably well. Funny thing is - I'm having the same discussion right now on KDE bugzilla about this :-) I think Amichai's idea is very good and I think setting up such a resource would be a great service to the community at large, but I don't think it can be automated using W3 validator. -- Oded ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
