Desktop Tool 3.4 Released

This is a fairly minor release as far as changes to the tool is concerned. However, there are several big changes to the validation engine within it.

The most obvious changes are to the validation report. Where possible this now highlights the problem in red as well as providing the usual descriptive text. The summaries now break down Accessibility problems into the different parts (A, AA, 508 etc). There is also a new short report format available via the Options menu. This provides a report that only displays the lines with problems on for people familiar to the W3C way of doing things. Personally, I think it makes it more difficult to locate and understand problems, but it's now there if you prefer it. Finally, the report displays 'implicit' tags (ie tags that TV adds) if there are problems associated with them.

The other big change is an expansion of the type checking that is done. Almost every type of attribute is now checked to ensure that it contains the 'right' type of value as defined in the standards.

In addition there are many other changes such as more accurate and robust broken link timeouts, additional HTTP headers sent to the Web Server, and better support for Vista.

posted by Total Validator @ 7:57 AM   0 comments