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htmlSQL: a charming idea
Use SQL syntaxe to access elements in an HTML page. Nice, concise and may-be a very useful idea. That’s what Jonas David John did in his htmlsql class (written in php) wich internally uses regular expressions to parse the html content.
This may be a nice idea to implement in python too, though we have nice tools in python such BeautifulSoup. Anyway, for well formed html (i.e. valid xml), nothing is better than xslt and xpath ;-)… Read More »
Be Valid or die Learning (note to self)
So the bivalidator was launched in a hurry, and was appreciated by the people who tested it. Many have - of course- submitted the bivalidator itself to validation. The markup was fine, but the css didn't passed the validation due to this unclear fault that was returned by the W3C:
Servlet has thrown exception:javax.servlet.ServletException: Timed out
Some people noticed that and they were right to yell: "hey! your validator itself doesn't validate!" Well... the bivalidator just returned what the w3c CSS validator responded, but, yes, after all why didn't it validate?… Read More »