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Re: [ANN] new release of the CSS validator

2009-12-15T09:04:51Z

Le 9 Déc 2009, Yves Lafon a écrit :

> New translations: Ukrainian, Farsi, Bulgarian

Monsieur Lafon,

J’avais déjà écrit dans
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-validator-css/2009Apr/0036.html
que la traduction persane est appelée « anglaise ».

J’avais déjà écrit dans
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-validator-css/2009Apr/0038.html
que la traduction russe est partiellement illisible.

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Re: Stylesheet not detected?

2009-12-14T12:03:13Z

Phil Archer wrote:

> The presence of
>
> <link rel="stylesheet" href="http://sstatic.net/so/all.css?v=5767">
>
> on that page and the
>
> 'No style sheet found'
>
> message on the validator result.

That's confusing indeed. There are two fundamental problems here.

First, the "W3C CSS Validator" congratulates for a "valid" style sheet even
when there is no style sheet, which it then says fairly unnoticeably. This
was reported (at least) over a year ago:
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-validator-css/2008Sep/0006.html
This problem in turn consists of two problems: preceding essential
information with worse than useless "advice" on polluting a page with "Valid
CSS" icon and things like that (there's nothing that should be done to that
except remove it), and saying something about a stylesheet when no
stylesheet has been processed.

Second, the "W3C CSS Validator" does not retrieve a style sheet when the
link element referring to it lacks the type attribute. I think this may be a
new problem, possibly a simple bug. Formally, the type attribute is not
required, but on the other hand, semantics is nominally left somewhat vague
when there is no type attribute in a link element with rel="stylesheet". In
practical terms, of course, there is no point in ignoring such elements -
browsers don't, and there is no real ambiguity. I might see some point in
issuing a warning about implying type="text/css" but just ignoring the style
sheet with no real explanation is just absurd. - If you use, say,
type="foo/bar", you get the same result: congrulations about "No Error
Found" and a suggestion to add an icon "To show your readers that you've
taken the care to create an interoperable Web page". Of course,
type="foo/bar" should minimally result in a message about unrecognized type
of style sheet.

> The URI given for the stylesheet is
> valid so I can only guess - and it is a guess - that the absence of
> the type attribute from the link element is causing the validator to
> skip it?

That is correct. It can be verified e.g. in the following two ways:
1) Construct a dummy test page that has the same link element and copy of
that page with the type="text/css" attribute added. For the former, the
problem appears; for the latter, it doesn't (one gets a long list of error
messages and warnings).
2) Just use "W3C CSS Validator" on the original page on Firefox with "Live
HTTP Headers" extension in use. You'll see that there isn't even any HTTP
request for the external style sheet.

--
Yucca, http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/

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Stylesheet not detected?

2009-12-14T03:53:29Z

Hi,

The result at [1] is for http://stackoverflow.com/ the issue being:

The presence of

<link rel="stylesheet" href="http://sstatic.net/so/all.css?v=5767">

on that page and the

'No style sheet found'

message on the validator result. The URI given for the stylesheet is
valid so I can only guess - and it is a guess - that the absence of the
type attribute from the link element is causing the validator to skip
it? *If* my guess is correct, might it be possible to detect this error
and report it rather than conveying a 100% pass message for a stylesheet
that the author will probably assume has been parsed (the no stylesheet
found message is a long way down the page).

Phil.

[1] http://tinyurl.com/yd9m3v3

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Phil Archer
W3C Mobile Web Initiative
http://www.w3.org/Mobile

http://philarcher.org

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Re: url("xyz") empty string

2009-12-13T06:52:13Z

> I have
>
> background: url("graukeil.gif") repeat-x top;
>
> in my declaration and get a
>
> Value Error : background Parse Error [empty string].
>
> This happens with and without the quotation marks inside the brackets
> and with double and single quotes.

This is a known issue with the current public release of the
Validator. Please see the thread, http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-validator-css/2009Dec/0000.html
and the subsequent replies.

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url("xyz") empty string

2009-12-12T05:48:24Z

I have

background: url("graukeil.gif") repeat-x top;

in my declaration and get a

Value Error : background Parse Error [empty string].

This happens with and without the quotation marks inside the brackets
and with double and single quotes. Reading the documentation I seem to
have done everything right. (Also the browsers interpret the declaration
as intended, but that doesn't mean much.) I've searched the FAQ and the
archive but couldn't find anything on this.

A sample page showing the error is

http://axel.berger-odenthal.de/Webdesign/Testpage.htm

Danke
Axel

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Johann-Häck-Str. 14 Fax: +49/ 2174/ 7439 68
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Deutschland (Germany) http://berger-odenthal.de

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Some strange error notice

2009-12-09T14:02:50Z

Sorry! We found the following errors (1)

URI : http://www.dcomdata.com/keely/

166

Parse Error styled

Please explain what this means. I don’t think my PHP file has 166 lines of script. Any explanation would be appreciated. Parse error?

Thanks for your consideration,

-Donald

confident@...

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Re: CSS Validator Error

2009-12-09T09:47:48Z

On Fri, 4 Dec 2009, Robert Buchholz wrote:

> Hello W3C,
>
> I have stumbled upon an error in the CSS validator...
>
> This will not validate (code from: 14.2.1:
> http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/REC-CSS2-20080411/colors.html):
>
> BODY { background: url("banner.jpeg") bottom }
>
> This will:
>
> BODY { background: url("banner.jpeg") center bottom }
>
> It appears that the validator is requiring both keywords/values for the
> background-position portion of the background property.
>

It is somehow fixed on http://qa-dev.w3.org:8001/css-validator/ but I am
not really happy with the fix, so there will be another one soon.
It was linked to the conjunction of the fact that there were exactly two
values and the position was the last.
Thanks for the report!
--
Baroula que barouleras, au tiéu toujou t'entourneras.

~~Yves

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Re: [ANN] new release of the CSS validator

2009-12-09T09:37:09Z

Actually,

In English today, it is quite normal to refer to the language as Farsi, rather than Persian. I suppose because Persia doesn't exist anymore, Darius is millenia dead and Riza Pahlavi was deposed decades ago now. Language: Farsi; modern state: Iran; former state and historical empire: Persia, Persian.

PM

Andreas Prilop wrote:

On Wed, 9 Dec 2009, Yves Lafon wrote:

New translations: Ukrainian, Farsi, Bulgarian


http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-validator-css/2009Apr/thread.html#msg36
still applies.

And the language is called Persian, not "Farsi".

In the same way it is Finnish and German, not "Suomi" or "Deutsch".



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Re: [ANN] new release of the CSS validator

2009-12-09T09:31:04Z

On Wed, 9 Dec 2009, Yves Lafon wrote:

> New translations: Ukrainian, Farsi, Bulgarian

http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-validator-css/2009Apr/thread.html#msg36
still applies.

And the language is called Persian, not "Farsi".

In the same way it is Finnish and German, not "Suomi" or "Deutsch".

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[ANN] new release of the CSS validator

2009-12-09T06:43:19Z

As you may have noticed, the CSS Validator was updated last thursday (and
this monday).

The release tag is 'release-aitd-2' (as there was a last security fix).

**** Changes ****

* CSS3 Colors (support for HSL, HSLA, including warning when clipping
occurs)
* CSS3 Selectors
* @charset handling
* Some bug fixed (but not all)
* New translations: Ukrainian, Farsi, Bulgarian
* More translations are now complete

Thanks to all the vonlunteer translators!

**** Thank You ****

The CSS validator is a free, open source tools which relies on *us*,
the Web community, to survive and get better. Many thanks are due to
the many users, translators, bug reporters, patch contributors, and
bearers of good ideas that made this release possible - some (but not
all) of whom are listed in:
http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/thanks.html

Beyond the great effort provided by the community, a lot of the burden
of making this free tool falls on the W3C. Hosting and bandwidth are
fairly heavy for these popular services, and as you can see above,
coding does take up quite some time, too. If you use the validator
frequently, rely on in in your company, or want to show your support
for good, free open source tools, please consider making a donation,
or become a sponsor:
http://www.w3.org/QA/Tools/Donate

**** What's next? ****

More bug fixes, of course, and better support for CSS3 (which require lots
of alignment work), help welcomed :)
Note that you can contribute code, but also tests, see
http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/autotest/testsuite/xml/ for the test
definition format and
http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/autotest/testsuite/properties/
for some test examples.

Cheers,

--
Baroula que barouleras, au tiéu toujou t'entourneras.

~~Yves

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checklink: getting error 403 checking non-public IP address disallowed

2009-12-08T11:31:15Z

My page is public but Link Checker won't check my links. I get
"Error: 403 Checking non-public IP address disallowed by link checker configuration"

My page that I'm trying to check is http://www.lockley.net/Coolspring/Calendar.shtml
--
Cheers,
Cynthia A. Lockley

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Re: [ANN] new release of the CSS validator

Re: Stylesheet not detected?

Stylesheet not detected?

Re: url("xyz") empty string

url("xyz") empty string

Some strange error notice

Re: CSS Validator Error

Re: [ANN] new release of the CSS validator

Re: [ANN] new release of the CSS validator

[ANN] new release of the CSS validator

checklink: getting error 403 checking non-public IP address disallowed

Re: CSS Validator Error

Re: Do you have a XSS on your validator

Warning Notice!!!

Do you have a XSS on your validator

Re: not able to validate frame code.

CSS Validator Error

not able to validate frame code.

Validation Output: 2 Errors

Re: Let's fix, not remove, the fuzzy matching feature

Let's fix, not remove, the fuzzy matching feature

Re: Bug in validator: tag with nested

Bug in validator: tag with nested

[VE][31] Add Subject Here

Housekeeping Test

Re: New bug in validator

public vs private

Re: Problems with Validator

Re: Problems with Validator

Should not css-validator.jar catch my tag name typos?

Problems with Validator

Validation Output: 1 Error

Re: Error: end of document in prolog

Help on error

New bug in validator

Re: about css3.0

Re: [VE][108] "COLS" vs "cols"

Re: Bug in validator:
tag with nested

Bug in validator:
tag with nested