W3C validator changes
The HTML/XHTML validator pages at the W3C site were recently redesigned. One nice touch I noticed is that when you’re looking at a results page, the associated favicon is either red or green depending on whether or not the page passed validation. Also, the title tag for the results page includes either “[Valid]” or “[Invalid]” before the rest of the title. For example, check out the results for a page that validates and a page that doesn’t.
I like the pages that you used for the examples.
Must be a Windows thing ’cause I can’t see it on a Mac on either Safari 3 or Firefox/Camino.
Works fine in Firefox on both of my Macs.
It works fine on my Mac w/ Safari 3
Work fine on my macs with Safari 2.0 & Camino.
Hum
http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.apple.com&charset=%28detect+automatically%29&doctype=Inline&group=0
Am I the only one who can’t see the new validator? I’ve tried via remote access to 6 different external IP networks, and all I get is the typical:
The new icons they use by the errors themselves don’t scale properly; they look all fuzzy. Other than that, I really like the redesign! Now I wish they’d just redesign their homepage as well.
@ Stephen Spence
I won’t hide being an Apple fan, but I see your point. However, I think W3C standards are quite rigid. Also, look at how many errors Microsoft’s home page had versus Apple’s home page.
Still, good point. An error is an error, right? 
I got 23 errors on my main page, 47 errors on my blog. I WIN!! (sorry, I shouldn’t joke about standards…)
Glad you like them
The only problem I’ve got with it is that I wrote the patch over a year ago and therefore before IE7 was launched. Using data URLs for the icons seemed like a good idea at the time to cut down on HTTP requests, but obviously IE doesn’t support them. Hopefully IE8 will add support…
One of Apple’s errors comes from their nonstandard Spotlight search feature, which was built to mimmic Mac OS X, but breaks wc3 validation.
The other two are stupid Javascript TYPE references. Come on, get those fixed already.