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- Validation tools
So, there is of course the great W3C Markup Validation Service for checking the HTML of your pages. I recently came across Checky, a very handy plug-in for Mozilla that lets you instantly access a whole host of different validators and checkers from a contextual menu. And if that's too much work, just pressing F10 can open a new tab with the current page ruthlessly judged in your validator of choice. I've only tried it on Windows, but it makes life just that little bit easier.
Also, I recently, and belatedly, came across Amaya, the web browser the W3C use “to demonstrate and test many of the new developments in Web protocols and formats.” Yes, it has all sorts of Berners-Lee type things like a built-in page editor and collaboration tools. But for the purposes of this post, it also provides some kind of validation — open a page and if there are “Parsing Errors” it tells you what's up. Well, it does for the XHTML pages I've tried anyway. Clicking from page to page and having each tested in some way is nice and easy. Not a substitute for the proper validator, but handy nonetheless.
- Hello Byliner!
Damn and blast. It took me weeks of agonising to decide to shut Byliner. And the moment I did I had second thoughts. Was I really going to close a site after so long just because I couldn't be bothered to do the small amount of maintenance? Of course, it didn't help that Pepys' Diary was taking up so much of my time. Now I can't bear the thought of saying goodbye to a useful site, or, to be honest, of handing it over to someone else. So, I'm going to rewrite it, redesign it. and add new features starting with RSS feeds, as suggested by Yoz and Ben Hammersley. It's a relief to have belatedly reached the right decision.
In Byliner on 17 January 2003. 1 comment. Permalink