Validation, Cross-Browser Checking

  • HTML 2 Txt – html2txt: online service to convert web pages to plain text
  • W3C HTML validator – This is the W3C Markup Validation Service, a free service that checks Web documents in formats like HTML and XHTML for conformance to W3C Recommendations and other standards.
  • Jigsaw – Enter the URI of a document (HTML with CSS or CSS only) you would like validated.
  • Backwards Compatibility Checker – Web Page Backward Compatibility Viewer
  • Header Checker – Enter a URI for a webpage and we’ll tell you what the headers for that page are. This is useful to check the status code for a webpage for SEO purposes.
  • Walidator – Validate your XHTML, HTML, CSS, RSS, RDF…
  • WebXCACT – WebXACT is a free online service that lets you test single pages of web content for quality, accessibility, and privacy issues.
  • Favicon validator – Favicon Validator is a free online service that can be used to validate favicon files, link tags and related items on web pages. If you’d like to double check the favicon on your web page or if you’re having trouble viewing it, enter your web page address and click “Check”
  • Selenium – Selenium is a test tool for web applications. Selenium tests run directly in a browser, just as real users do. And they run in Internet Explorer, Mozilla and Firefox on Windows, Linux, and Macintosh. No other test tool covers such a wide array of platforms.
  • Vischeck – Vischeck URL is still under development. We know that it will fail on many websites. For example, it won’t work with sites that do an immediate redirect, use Macromedia Flash, or use certain javascript operations. Frames may also cause problems, but you can run each frame separately to get around this.
  • Color Filter – Use the colorblind colorlab to select safe colors earlier in the design process.