102952 - [RFE] Validate {HTML|CSS|Links} should be available in the browser

Status: NEW

(SeaMonkey :: UI Design, enhancement)

Description

[Henrik Lynggaard Hansen]

The composer part of mozilla has a nice feature where you in the "edit" menu can
choose "validate Html" and it will try to load that page into w3c's validator.


This menu item should also be avaliable in the browser part of mozilla, so the
user/ web developer  can easily verify a pages html correctness

Comment 1

[Gilles Durys]

There are bug 6211 and bug 47108.

Same goal as 6211:  dup ?

Comment 2

[Neil Marshall]

This is very easy to do.  In fact I just did it before looking for the bug :)

I just have to figure out how to get it into the tasks menu.  I believe I can 
also merge this code the translate code and possibly a css validator to all use 
the same function.

If it's a file:// url I currently just send it to the www page and let it handle 
that.  In the composer one it actually sends you to the upload the file to the 
validator page, but I'm not sure I can do that nicely and support translate and 
CSS validation in the same function.

Comment 3

[Neil Marshall]

Attachment: Adds the ability to validate html, css, and links.

Comment 4

[Neil Marshall]

I can't make the entire patch with patch maker but in order for the three
commands to work these prefs have to be added to defaults\pref\all.js right
below the Translation service preferences.


// Validation service
pref("browser.validate.html.service",
"http://validator.w3.org/check?charset=%28detect+automatically%29&doctype=Inline&uri=");
pref("browser.validate.html.serviceUpload",
"http://validator.w3.org/file-upload.html");
pref("browser.validate.css.service",
"http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/validator?warning=1&profile=css2&uri=");
pref("browser.validate.css.serviceUpload",
"http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/validator-upload.html");
pref("browser.validate.links.service",
"http://validator.w3.org/checklink?depth=&submit=Check&uri=");

Comment 5

[Neil Marshall]

Does anyone know why this code doesn't work when the xul cache is enabled?  It
appears to work fine if the cache is disabled, but as soon as I enable it, the
javascript console reports that the function which it uses does not exist.

Does navigator.js not load for navigatorOverlay.xul?

Comment 6

[Christian :Biesinger (don't email me, ping me on IRC)]

I have not tried out your patch, but it looks as if it removes the
View/Translate feature (though parts remain in navigator.dtd)

Why? Couldn't you just have added this feature in addition to Translate?

Comment 7

[Neil Marshall]

The translate button works the exact same way as these buttons.  It calls a 
remote cgi script with a url as one of it's paramaters.

I just converted the function which translates to be a general purpose function. 
 Now depending on the pref used, that same function can 
translate/validate/or call any other cgi script on the web.

For example it could be modified to call 
http://web.lfw.org/jminc/Malkovich/http://www.mozilla.org/

Comment 8

[Gilles Durys]

*** Bug 112501 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 9

[Blake Ross]

Sorry, I think this is too much of a geek feature to find its way in what should
be a mainstream browser.

Comment 10

[Henrik Lynggaard Hansen]

I will re-open this request on three accounts:

* Opera has a similar feature, and it doesn't appear especially geek-ish

* The feature is "allready there" in the composer.

* I thought "Netscape" was the mainstream browser, and mozilla for the developers ?

Comment 11

[Blake Ross]

* Opera is totally a geek browser.  Look at its UI.

* It is acceptable in Composer because Composer is largely geared toward web
page designers, a more technical audience.  They would certainly want to
validate their html.  Users are not expected to validate the pages they view
frequently, nor would they even know what that means.

* No, Mozilla is a base browser that in theory is geared to the lowest common
denominator.  Distributors take Mozilla and customize it further to suit their
end-user audience.

Comment 12

[Alex Bishop]

If you really want a Validate HTML menu item, simply create a bookmark pointing to:

javascript:void(location.href='http://validator.w3.org/check?uri='+location.href+'&ss')

Comment 13

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

agreed, v.