Re: Wanted, more simple tutorials on testing

and, albeit non-perlishly, not as an alternative to the above suggestions, but as a step beyond, I would strongly that you test at least some of your html against the w3c validator http://validator.w3.org/. If you use css (recommended), w3c also offers a reasonably trustworthy validator for that.

html is and css can be made sufficiently english-like that it's fairly easy to scan for correctness (certainly it's easier for me than debugging my sorry excuses for scripts). Your creepie-crawlies hide chiefly in the various (and disparate) non-standard performances by browsers. However, a little time invested (say, a few hours) in learning these will let you write html and css that perform reasonably well across (BIG caveat) reasonably current (say, v5 and up in the windoze world) browsers.

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Re^2: Wanted, more simple tutorials on testing by wazoox (Prior) on Jul 23, 2005 at 14:49 UTC
Better than that, there's HTML-Tidy. It's basically the same as the w3c validator, but much faster, and offline : you don't have to make your file accessible to the whole net :) It even can correct most common mistakes (unclosed tags, deprecated tags, unencoded entities, bad encoding...) Get it there : HTML Tidy project	[reply]
Re^3: Wanted, more simple tutorials on testing by adrianh (Chancellor) on Jul 24, 2005 at 11:14 UTC
Better than that, there's HTML-Tidy. It's basically the same as the w3c validator, While tidy is certainly a useful app it is nothing like the W3C validator. It doesn't do verification against doctypes, doesn't recognise use of meta tags to set character encoding, etc.	[reply]
Re^4: Wanted, more simple tutorials on testing by wazoox (Prior) on Jul 24, 2005 at 11:38 UTC
Hum, are we talking about the same app? Mine verify doctypes and even convert from a doctype to another (for instance from html 4.01 transitional to strict, or to xhtml 1.0 strict, etc). It also corrects character encodings IIRC.	[reply]
Re^5: Wanted, more simple tutorials on testing by adrianh (Chancellor) on Jul 24, 2005 at 15:56 UTC
Re^6: Wanted, more simple tutorials on testing by wazoox (Prior) on Jul 24, 2005 at 17:12 UTC
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Re^3: Wanted, more simple tutorials on testing by ww (Archbishop) on Jul 25, 2005 at 13:18 UTC
adrianh is completely correct; tidy (HTML) is an excellent tool for partial cleanup of bad (ie, non-w3c compliant) html and for pretty-fying code to make it easier to read when another author (or one of the less sensible WYSIWYG) has obfuscated the code... but it is NOT a validator.	[reply]
Re^2: Wanted, more simple tutorials on testing by willyyam (Priest) on Jul 25, 2005 at 12:25 UTC
It isn't a "non-Perlish" suggestion. The W3C validator is written in Perl, last I looked.	[reply]