Re: [Htmlvalidator-help] validator, tag case

[Marc G. <mg...@sk...>]

Hi Dave,

These instructions are not too bad for Mozilla.

http://gemal.dk/mozilla/build.html

I use Firefox 1.5 beta to build the code with VC6.
I do not have VS2003. But the VC2005 is free
and I will maybe use it one day.

The compile instruction for the extension are here:

http://users.skynet.be/mgueury/mozilla/compile.html

Marc

Dave Frazzitta wrote:
> Hi:
>  
> I am going to set up a VM to try and build your code.
> Can you tell me what version of mozilla you are compiling and what 
> compiler you are using - VC6 or VS2003 ?
> or better yet - is there a set of instructions you use to set up a 
> compile environment on XP -SP2  someplace on the web that you use ??
>  
> Thanks, Dave
>  
>  
>  
>
>     ----- Original Message -----
>     *From:* Marc Gueury <mailto:mg...@sk...>
>     *To:* Stef Nychka <mailto:st...@ug...>
>     *Cc:* HTML Validator
>     <mailto:htm...@li...>
>     *Sent:* Tuesday, July 25, 2006 2:42 AM
>     *Subject:* Re: [Htmlvalidator-help] validator, tag case
>
>     Hi Stef,
>
>     Both algorithm are HTML/XHTML validator.
>     - Tidy
>     - SGML parser
>
>     The problem is that both can contains bugs. I can not solve bugs
>     without seeing them.
>     I need a testcase to reproduce them. I think that the issue is
>     that Tidy probably detect
>     your page as HTML not XHTML.
>
>     For the SGML parser = the same validator than validator.w3c.org
>     that I am sure
>     takes care of the uppercase tags or not.
>     For Tidy, I am not sure.
>
>     Marc
>
>
>     Stef Nychka wrote:
>>     ----------Original Message----------
>>
>>       
>>>     Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2006 20:44:19 +0200
>>>     From: Marc Gueury <mg...@sk...>
>>>     To: Stef Nychka <st...@ug...>
>>>     Cc: HTML Validator <htm...@li...>
>>>     Subject: Re: validator, tag case
>>>
>>>     Hi Stef,
>>>
>>>     HTML allows uppercase tags. Not XHTML. It could be that
>>>     tidy has a bug about it or that the DTD is not well
>>>     defined in your case. What means that the XHTML/HTML
>>>     detection works differently for both program.
>>>         
>>
>>     Yes, the document I was validating was XHTML 1.0.  So it
>>     sounds like you're saying that your validator only validates
>>     HTML, not XHTML.  Is this correct?
>>
>>       
>>>     I need a testcase to log such a bug in Tidy and to see if
>>>     it is really a bug.
>>>
>>>         
>>
>>     The file is XHTML.  Do you still want an XHTML document with
>>     <ol> that your validator let's slide?  (Note:  I doubt it'll
>>     be a problem, but there's a small possibility that I may not
>>     be able to reproduce it.)
>>
>>       
>>>     Hope it helps,
>>>
>>>     Marc
>>>
>>>     Ps: Please read this: http://users.skynet.be/mgueury/mozilla/preview_080.html
>>>
>>>         
>>
>>     I glanced at it, and noted that it's an HTML, not an XHTML
>>     validator.  Although it did say something about XHTML help.
>>     Anway, was there something in particular you wanted me to
>>     look at?  Or were you saying this beta version may work
>>     better?  I wouldn't mind testing it out, at least on that
>>     one file, although I'll likely stick with the stable version
>>     for now.
>>
>>       
>>>     Stef Nychka wrote:
>>>         
>>     <snipped>
>>
>>     Cheers
>>
>>       
>
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