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  • Baron Samedi
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    Automatically validating each page as it loads

    My whole site is PHP. That means that there are various includes which
    make up each page so that I can have standard headers/footers/menu, etc
    If the content of one of these changes, it might break one, some or
    all pages.

    I am fairly anal about validation and use W3C to validate my most
    important pages regularly.

    However, I am wondering if it is worth the overhead to run the valuator
    automatically on each page and if there are any errors, to send me a
    mail.

    What do you think? Is it worth the performance hit?

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    • Kimmo Laine
      #2
      Re: Automatically validating each page as it loads

      "Baron Samedi" <Papa.Legba.666 @gmail.comwrote in message
      news:1159497741 .495228.135190@ m73g2000cwd.goo glegroups.com.. .
      My whole site is PHP. That means that there are various includes which
      make up each page so that I can have standard headers/footers/menu, etc
      If the content of one of these changes, it might break one, some or
      all pages.
      >
      I am fairly anal about validation and use W3C to validate my most
      important pages regularly.
      >
      However, I am wondering if it is worth the overhead to run the valuator
      automatically on each page and if there are any errors, to send me a
      mail.
      >
      What do you think? Is it worth the performance hit?

      There's no point killing w3c like that. They propably will notice your
      slaying their server and will block your IP. Look, the world will not end if
      the page doesn't validate. Sure it is possible to validate it on each run
      but for fucks sake, it's not _that_ important and most of all it will damage
      a very useful service such as the w3c validator by unnecessarily loading the
      server all the time.

      You _are_ being fairly anal about it and that's not good. Validation is not
      the ultimate answer. even if your page would validate, it doesn't
      necessarily mean the page is errorless, or that it looks okay. The code
      might be broken in a way that in fact does validate, but still look like
      hell in a browser. You'll end up in a false sense of security like that.

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        • NoWhereMan
          #3
          Re: Automatically validating each page as it loads

          on 28 Sep 2006 19:42:21 -0700, Baron Samedi wrote:
          My whole site is PHP. That means that there are various includes which
          make up each page so that I can have standard headers/footers/menu, etc
          If the content of one of these changes, it might break one, some or
          all pages.
          >
          firefox + html tidy validator extension, all done clientside, no server
          overhead

          bye


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