Most of you probably know about W3C’s validators. WDG has a validator. My first thought, “Why create a validator when we’ve got the W3C, the official organization?” WDG covers that with its explanation.

I ran google.com on both validators. WDG’s explanation, in my opinion, is easier to understand than W3C, which uses formal (rules) language. It’s jolly good it quotes the rules, but how many people can understand all of its specs without studying it? I believe putting it in “English” is more important as we get frustrated when we have to find and fix errors. Give us a link to the rules and we’ll check them out if we feel up to it.

Both caught the lack of a doctype declaration, the missing type attribute, the incorrect naming of the ID attribute, and the unknown references to entity “tab” and “ie.” Then W3 goes on to address a few more entities, but the issue is not clear and these were not found in WDG’s validator.

Which do you like better and why?