#validation (31 links)
- Free email address validation API for web forms | Hacker News news.ycombinator.com
Some good discussion on the "why bother" aspect.
- w3cjs - w3c validator package by thomasdavis thomasdavis.github.com
A node.js library for testing files or url's against the w3c html validator.
- jaimeiniesta/site_validator · GitHub github.com
site-wide website markup validator
- Local W3C validator on OSX | AlastairC alastairc.ac
You can install it as a local ’service’, essentially a web application running on Apache on your local machine. That means you can adjust the Web Developers Toolbar for Firefox to use you local version.
Validator S.A.C. (Stand Alone Complex) is a stand-alone, easy to install, version of the W3C's HTML / XHTML Markup Validator for Mac OS X.
A tool to traverse through all elements in a web page, and when it finds a HTML element with inline events [...] it highlights it with a red border. It also highlights javascript: links with a magenta border.
- Validator.nu (X)HTML5 Validator html5.validator.nu
"Highly Experimental" as of posting.
- test everything — 100+ tools in one! tester.jonasjohn.de
CSS and HTML validators, SEO tools, Social services, Web proxies, Network tools, Text tools, Image tools (works only with Image URLs)
- fValidator - An open source (free) unobtrusive javascript tool for easy handling form validation zend.lojcomm.com.br
"An open source (free) unobtrusive javascript tool for easy handling form validation." Looks ok, but shame it's Mootools and not jQuery (making it useless for us).
- Form field hints with CSS and JavaScript (Ask the CSS Guy) askthecssguy.com
It's a basic example of how helpful a little JavaScript and CSS can be in a form. Instead of the input hints always showing and potentionally cluttering a very simple form, only the hint for the currently focused input will show.
This article shows some of the new functionality of the proposed form chapter of HTML5: Web Forms 2.
- Web Accessibility Validation Tool, Check Accessibility Online by Truwex checkwebsite.erigami.com
Truwex manages website compliance with web accessibility, online privacy, quality standards.
- A List Apart: Articles: Where Our Standards Went Wrong alistapart.com
"We can all agree that the realities of the web make it hard to build a standards-compliant site. Once the client’s CMS, outdated WYSIWYG editors, and third-party advertising code have finished with once-valid markup, things begin to look ever-so-ugly u
- Nikita the Spider * Bulk/Batch HTML Validation, Link Checking and More nikitathespider.com
Bulk (or batch) (X)HTML validation and link checking are at the core of what Nikita does, but there's more to her than that.
- CSS Validator colour warnings are not errors | 456 Berea Street 456bereastreet.com
t’s quite common for CSS authors to think that the warnings the CSS Validator reports are errors [...] Those particular warnings are there for accessibility reasons and to remind you that you need to take care when specifying colours.
- CSE HTML Validator Firefox Extension htmlvalidator.com
Lets you easily validate documents from within Firefox 1.0 and Firefox 1.5 using the CSE HTML Validator Engine.
- Accessites.org’s Web Accessibility Articles & News | Accessites.org: Selected Article accessites.org
A simple, but effective way to give an extreme visual example to show the editors that something has gone horribly wrong
"I wanted a robust javascript validation library that was simple to implement and didn't require me do any extra work other than creating the form. My favourite idea for a method of doing this is to utilise the field elements' class attribute to indicate
- "RELAXED" the HTML Validator badame.vse.cz
An easy to use HTML validator implementation which doesn't use the official W3C DTD's. It rather validates HTML documents using it's own schema definitions written in Relax NG with embedded Schematron patterns.
The second article of three in a series of articles explaining how to perform a website accessibility evaluation.
- Tips for improved accessibility in ASP.NET 1.1 - Standards-schmandards standards-schmandards.com
- Watchfire WebXACT webxact.watchfire.com
- bitter pill: w3ctextarea 'textarea xhtml validator' bitterpill.org
Allows you to validate data within a textarea as 'XHTML 1.0 Strict' using the w3c xhtml strict validator.
- XHTML Validator to RSS : Ben Hammersley benhammersley.com
- Html Validator for Firefox and Mozilla users.skynet.be
Based on Tidy.