A few days back,
The Daily Report commented on the unhelpful error message language of the W3C’s free online CSS and Markup validation services. (They also
wrote to the
group responsible for the development of these services; although their resources are few, they welcome and encourage your comments.)
Our pals Olivier Thereaux and Karl Dubost at W3C tell us that lack of manpower is the single greatest impediment to improving the W3C validation services. The CSS validator is developed in Java; it is handled by one W3C member (Phillippe Le Hegaret) and one volunteer (Sijtsche de Jong). The markup validator is crafted in Perl by three underappreciated volunteers: Terje Bless, Nick Kew, and Ville Skytta.
If you want to do something for web standards, and you have the time and technical knowledge, you can help the W3C improve these free, essential products. Download the
markup validation service source code or the
CSS validation service source code and be part of the solution.
Thanks Zeldman
