It is the XHTML/CSS validator. Who all uses this? I am going to uninstall it here pretty soon. You see when I first installed it, I thought it was the coolest extension ever for us webmasters. Now I just notice myself critiquing, altering, and nit picking every little tiny detail. Does anyone else have this "problem" with the extension? Every single page that I load I look down in the corner and it will tell me it is really perfect or not. While is a great extension; it was definately not a good idea for my perfectionst personality!! Thoughts?
I actually didn't know about this extension, but I think I will be having your problem in the near future
Yes sir! haha. Just as I am posting this message I can tell you their are 0 errors and 17 XHTML warnings... ahh its terrible stuff. lol. line 286 column 66 - Warning: <br> element not empty or not closed line 293 column 72 - Warning: <br> element not empty or not closed line 300 column 71 - Warning: <br> element not empty or not closed line 308 column 71 - Warning: <br> element not empty or not closed line 315 column 71 - Warning: <br> element not empty or not closed line 923 column 3 - Warning: <link> isn't allowed in <div> elements line 923 column 3 - Warning: <style> isn't allowed in <div> elements line 66 column 15 - Warning: <td> attribute value "LEFT" must be lower case for XHTML line 66 column 141 - Warning: <td> attribute value "RIGHT" must be lower case for XHTML line 539 column 4 - Warning: <a> anchor "post1668638" already defined line 769 column 4 - Warning: <a> anchor "post1668664" already defined line 966 column 29 - Warning: <input> proprietary attribute "unselectable" line 321 column 2 - Warning: trimming empty <tr> line 587 column 6 - Warning: trimming empty <div> line 526 column 5 - Warning: <a> id and name attribute value mismatch line 756 column 5 - Warning: <a> id and name attribute value mismatch line 1086 column 1 - Warning: <form> id and name attribute value mismatch 0 errors / 17 warnings Code (markup): Bad Stuff Just as a heads up, this extension creates some slow loading pages (not real slow, but maybe adds close to a second to page loading time as its going through, scanning all of the html, then figuring out the errors /problems of each and every single page you visit.)
To validate my code, I use the "Web Developer" extension. It simply ads a HTML and CSS validation option to the context menu (right mouse click)
That might actually be a better solution then the one I use as it validates each and every single page I visit. I will have to check it out.
Egad! It sounds like an extension written by a HTML validation Nazi. Yes the Web Developer extension is much better. It only validates pages it is explicitly asked to validate.
I also use the web developer extension, that way i only know if it validates if I want to know, and it doesnt effect load times
Nobody is perfect, I think that the code should be clean and valid enough to be displayed equally in IE, and FF. Perfectionism for most cases in life is just wasting time. The high quality is commonly accepted.
For those struggling with IE specific issues, I just started a thread that contains a really elegant solution for addressing those issues while still validating to W3C specifications at http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=170495.