Re: Tool request

On 1/28/06, Sam Ruby <rubys@intertwingly.net> wrote:
> Danny Ayers wrote:
> > A little ps. on this thread -
> >
> > Sean B. Palmer has put together a script very much along the lines
> > described earlier - "Validate With Logos", for (X)HTML, using the W3C
> > Validator.
> >
> > http://inamidst.com/proj/valid/
> >
> > I'm hoping he can be encouraged to add hooks for the Feed Validator
> > and RDF Validator too ;-)
>
> It would be very easy to add code that performs this function to the
> Feed Validator itself.
>
> What would be considerably harder is convincing people to install the
> feedvalidator on their own machines.
>
> Having a cgi-script run on my machine every time somebody fetches a
> staticly-served page on your machine, multiplied by the number of people
> who also see a value in this... well, that simply is a non-starter.

Yep, Sean mentioned the same issue (on IRC). Having just one or two
centralised services probably would be unfeasible. But as noted
earlier, there's no reason to run such a script for every page access
- once every update would still mean 100% coverage.

Still, if the code (and dependencies) were packaged in a convenient
form (like a .deb), then perhaps a useful number of people might
install the validation tools on their own machines (where useful > 0).

Such installs need not be individual - it's not inconceivable that the
same install could be shared across a corporate ___domain, or made
available to web host service providers, alongside their existing web
admin tools.

Even with validator bookmarks in place in my browser it takes time to
check, and demands a lot more attention than glancing at a smiley. The
change might only lower the bar to validation a teeny bit, but on web
scale that may still make a significant difference.

Cheers,
Danny.

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Received on Saturday, 28 January 2006 20:30:57 UTC