Version 0.8.0 of the W3C Markup Validator

Major milestone in the development of the validator.

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2007-07-25 - News for the W3C Markup Validator
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Releasing version 0.8.0 of the W3C Markup Validator, a major milestone in the development of the validator, including changes in its architecture, UI, new features and fewer bugs, for a better, more accurate and helpful quality process.

New cleaner look. New icons available too...

List of all W3C Validation Icons
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[encyclo]

It's good to see that development is continuing for this very useful tool. One thing I particularly like is the use of red and green favicons for invalid/valid documents, which are visible in the browser's tab bar and address bar. Thanks to our resident CSS guru (and WebmasterWorld moderator) Robin_reala [webmasterworld.com] for coming up with the idea and submitting the patch. :)

The "grouped messages" option is useful on documents with a cascade of errors, it is a good alternative to the usual sequential view.

[Fotiman]

So far, I'm NOT impressed.
It took forever for the validator page to load. When it finally did, I tried validating a URL and after a long wait got this error:

Software error:

HTML::Template->new() : Cannot open included file /usr/local/validator/share/templates/result.tmpl : file not found. at /usr/share/perl5/HTML/Template.pm line 1658
HTML::Template::_init_template('HTML::Template=HASH(0x20b2d50)') called at /usr/share/perl5/HTML/Template.pm line 1238
HTML::Template::_init('HTML::Template=HASH(0x20b2d50)') called at /usr/share/perl5/HTML/Template.pm line 1124
HTML::Template::new('HTML::Template', 'die_on_bad_params', 0, 'cache', 1, 'filename', '/usr/local/validator/share/templates/result.tmpl', 'loop_context_vars', 1, ...) called at /usr/local/validator/httpd/cgi-bin/check line 312
ModPerl::ROOT::ModPerl::Registry::usr_local_validator_httpd_cgi_2dbin_check::handler('Apache2::RequestRec=SCALAR(0x1618570)') called at /usr/lib/perl5/ModPerl/RegistryCooker.pm line 203
eval {...} called at /usr/lib/perl5/ModPerl/RegistryCooker.pm line 203
ModPerl::RegistryCooker::run('ModPerl::Registry=HASH(0x8aaf90)') called at /usr/lib/perl5/ModPerl/RegistryCooker.pm line 169
ModPerl::RegistryCooker::default_handler('ModPerl::Registry=HASH(0x8aaf90)') called at /usr/lib/perl5/ModPerl/Registry.pm line 30
ModPerl::Registry::handler('ModPerl::Registry', 'Apache2::RequestRec=SCALAR(0x1618570)') called at -e line 0
eval {...} called at -e line 0

For help, please send mail to the webmaster ([no address given]), giving this error message and the time and date of the error.

So my initial impression is that they have released a product that was not ready for primetime.

[Fotiman]

Am I the only person seeing this error? It's still broken for me... I'm assuming it's broken for everyone, but I've not seen any complaints yet about it (and I'm surprised it would go more than a day being broken).

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Am I the only person seeing this error?

I just validated 10 different pages and all worked as expected.

[Fotiman]

Interesting. I only seem to be getting this error when I use Firefox. If I use IE, I don't see the error.

[encyclo]

The error message is probably cached by Firefox - clear out the cache, restart Firefox and try again.

[pageoneresults]

cached by Firefox - clear out the cache

Hehehe, its usually IE that has the caching issues. :)

[Fotiman]

No, I've verified (with Ethereal) that I'm getting back an Error 500 Internal Server Error. It's not cached.