-= W3C Markup Validator v0.8.0 Released =- A new version of the W3C Markup Validation Service (a.k.a HTML validator) was released today. Free service online: http://validator.w3.org/ Or as free download: http://validator.w3.org/source/ install: http://validator.w3.org/docs/install.html upgrade notes: http://www.w3.org/QA/2007/04/ validator_080_upgrade_notes.html * Changes * Version 0.8.0 is a major milestone in the development of the validator, including changes in its architecture, UI, new features and fewer bugs, for a better, more accurate and helpful quality process. Changes include: * New architecture, faster and more reliable, scaling better to the growing usage of the validator * Improved interface for better usability, accessibility * New feature: automatic cleanup of markup (with Tidy) * New feature: additional XML-Well-Formedness check, for more reliable validation of XML-based languages * New feature: checking that the documents are sent with proper Internet Media Type (MIME type) * New feature: for XML documents, checking that the xmlns is present, and properly set. * New feature: grouped messages, an alternate view to the sequential display of errors * New feature: Direct Input form can be pre-filled with basic document structure. In other words, it is now possible to check "chunks" of HTML, for inclusion in templates or CMS code. * New feature: For non-xhtml XML documents without document type, the validator will not try to perform validation and will only check well- formedness * Added support for SMIL 2.1, XHTML Basic 1.1, XHTML + RDFa * What next? * After this release, we expect to have a few minor updates to the 0.8.0, and work will start on the next generation(s). For a high-level view of what the roadmap of future versions is expected to be: http://validator-test.w3.org/todo.html Anyone interested in participating in that development should of course feel free to contact us, see the "Get Involved" section below. Stay tuned to this mailing-list and to the W3C QA Weblog (http:// www.w3.org/QA/) for upcoming news, and feel free to forward this announcement to relevant forums, or link to: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-validator/2007Jul/0138.html ** Send Feedback - Get Involved ** The markup Validator is one of the many open source software projects created and maintained at W3C: your participation in sending feedback and ideas, patches and bug reports helps build better tools. See http://www.w3.org/Status for a list of other W3C software, and http://www.w3.org/Status#contribute to learn how to get involved. The mailing-list www-validator is the primary discussion channel for users and contributors of the Markup Validator (and Link Checker). Please make sure to search the archives before sending in a new idea or request, as a courtesy to the many readers of the list. http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-validator/ Bug reports and patches can be sent to the public W3C Bugzilla database. Usual bug reporting guidelines apply - make sure your bug is a bug, make sure it is not yet known, and give precise and complete information to reproduce. http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/ For an overview of feedback mechanisms for the validator, see: http://validator.w3.org/feedback.html * Thanks! * Many thanks to everyone who constantly helps make these tools better: developers, authors of documentation, users who sent bug reports, and a great community of users here on www-validator. This release of the validator was made possible by the contribution of a lot of people. Special thanks should go to: * Björn Höhrmann for a lot of code and libraries used in this version * Valerio Proietti for his help on the user interface * Sierk Bornemann, Ville Skyttä, Shane McCarron for important patches …and many more, for ideas, suggestions, bug reports. For an incomplete list: http://validator.w3.org/about.html#credits Thanks to all. Thank you, olivier. -- olivier Thereaux - W3C - http://www.w3.org/People/olivier/ W3C Open Source Software: http://www.w3.org/Status

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