2.7.0 of the validation engine released

Version 2.7.0 of the validation engine was released today.

Warnings are now not displayed by default, but there's a new option to turn them back on again. overhaul of most of the validation messages. There are also tweaks to the spelling engine to provide better suggestions.

In addition several bugs were fixed; in particular broken links were being reported by some IIS web servers although the links were valid. Also two of the AAA accessibility tests have not been running since 2.5.0 (now corrected), and the results pages did not deal well with some poorly formatted web pages that were submitted recently (also corrected).

posted by Total Validator @ 6:54 PM   0 comments   

2.6.0/1.1.0 Released

Version 2.6 of the validation engine and 1.1 of the desktop tool were released today.

The updates included an overhaul of most of the validation messages, and new spelling option to allow certain attributes to be spell checked (alt, title, summary, label, prompt and standby).

In addition an option was added to the desktop tool to allow the user to check for later versions and to download them.

posted by Total Validator @ 4:53 PM   0 comments   

Desktop version of Total Validator released

Version 1 of the Total Validator Tool was released today. The initial release of this tool enables the user to perform the four basic validations from their desktop.

This makes it much quicker and easier to validate local files rather than using the online service. It also simplifies the checking of pages behind firewalls.

posted by Total Validator @ 9:31 PM   3 comments   

2.5.0 of the validation engine released

The principal objective of this release was to make changes to simplify the creating of the new desktop tool version of Total Validator.

But in addition, the spelling engine was significantly improved and a new option allowing the user to suppress the list of suggestions was added to the Advanced Form.

posted by Total Validator @ 9:28 AM   0 comments