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0 pointstalmand12y ago0 comments

Why can't the browser be the validator itself? You load the page and the browser tells you what's wrong with the code.

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rwj12y ago· 3 in thread

This would work as long as the browser was in a dev mode. Usability would suffer if normal users had to deal with errors in the pages that they visit.

bhaak12y ago

Sorry, that's silly. Web pages break all the time.

If they would break because of invalid HTML, they would also already break during your tests.

If you use some HTML injection services like ads or analytics that make valid HTML invalid, then it's great that it breaks because it will show you immediately on your tests that these services suck.

danbee12y ago

What if you have no choice but to rely on those services? The person coding the site isn't always the decision maker.

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talmandOP12y ago

That's a good point, but I wasn't necessarily thinking it should error out to render nothing at all.

What I would like is if somehow the browser could insert an error class name into the offending element so that in my CSS I could give it a set of rules to make it stand out after render.

danbee12y ago

Users shouldn't have to care about this. If the browser can render the page it should.

This does raise the point that perhaps browsers should have a development mode that does raise errors though.

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5 comments · 2 top-level

rwj12y ago· 3 in thread

This would work as long as the browser was in a dev mode. Usability would suffer if normal users had to deal with errors in the pages that they visit.

bhaak12y ago

Sorry, that's silly. Web pages break all the time.

If they would break because of invalid HTML, they would also already break during your tests.

If you use some HTML injection services like ads or analytics that make valid HTML invalid, then it's great that it breaks because it will show you immediately on your tests that these services suck.

danbee12y ago

What if you have no choice but to rely on those services? The person coding the site isn't always the decision maker.

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talmandOP12y ago

That's a good point, but I wasn't necessarily thinking it should error out to render nothing at all.

What I would like is if somehow the browser could insert an error class name into the offending element so that in my CSS I could give it a set of rules to make it stand out after render.

danbee12y ago

Users shouldn't have to care about this. If the browser can render the page it should.

This does raise the point that perhaps browsers should have a development mode that does raise errors though.

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