X-HTML validator and link checker

[Marco Schmidt]

There are various services to check X-HTML standard conformance and the validity of external links. However, they are sometimes limited to a number of pages or do understand HTML, but not X-HTML. Is there a single web service or, better yet, a program, to accomplish all this?

[Newbie]

Marco,

I've had good luck with Xenu for link checking.
http://home.snafu.de/tilman/xenulink.html

Have you used the W3 validator?

http://validator.w3.org

By the way, would strongly recommend using the Developer Toolbar by Chris Pederick if you use firefox.

http://chrispederick.com/work/firefox/webdeveloper/

[Newbie]

By the way, good to see you here. Have some paitence ... I think we'll have a good forum going in the next few weeks.

[Steve-o]

Originally Posted by Newbie

By the way, would strongly recommend using the Developer Toolbar by Chris Pederick if you use firefox.

http://chrispederick.com/work/firefox/webdeveloper/

Firebug seems to capture more errors that webdeveloper now, plus it has a lot more features for debugging AJAX, CSS, JavaScript, and loading times.

[shri]

I've pretty much adopted Firebug for any debugging. Seems to do pretty well.

Yeah, the default firefox error console does offer a lot more than webdeveloper.