PUBLIC MARKS with tag w3cteam

This small test suite has been built to test the link checker at W3C, but could be used for any tool used to either check links in HTML documents, spiders, or miscellaneous Web User-Agents.

For now let’s just say that it’s widely used, and if that’s a measure of success, we did well.

Putting such musings in a blog won’t help make them easier or harder to find, of course. But somehow the pages in question — and the pages I felt like writing in response — seem to fit more neatly into the genre of the journal, or the ongoing work log, the lab notebook, than into any other.

Full spec support by 2010 I will no longer compensate for limited or broken specification support in browsers after January 1, 2010. This gives IE, and the other browsers, time to fully implement all of the specifications that have been out as recommendations for years now. This includes support for XHTML 1.1, CSS 2.1, SVG 1.1, in addition to any other specification not listed. This isn't part of a movement, and there is no badge. This is just my personal choice that I will no longer compensate for browsers not implementing standards, beginning January 1, 2010.

It's a gift of time - sometimes the most precious substance in the universe - which reminds me again why I'm blessed to work here.

our latest toy in this category is an htmldiff service, which out of two online HTML documents will create a new document highlighting the differences between the two documents.