re: web design

[Jude DaShiell <jdashiel@panix.com>]

html-tidy can certainly check web site grammar and perhaps repair it too. 
I write perhaps since I suspect it is entirely possible to write an html 
site so badly that not even html-tidy could repair the site.

One possible direction gnu tools might take in the future would be in 
terms of scripts first to install when necessary Linux tools and use those 
locally then send site files out for further checking and perhaps 
processing and collect those the external sites processed for the 
developers.  Multiple subdirectories with names of internal and external 
tools on them could hold the processed content as the content got 
processed and returned.  It would then be up to the site developers to 
review what was returned in each subdirectory to find if any of the 
processing tools made unacceptable errors.  html-tidy I consider a hybrid 
since the tool can check and slso repair web site files as opposed to 
w3cvalidator which so far as I know only checks web site files.  My nephew 
who could use Windows prefers Linux for his web development he does for 
other companies so if any of this starts happening I think he'll be very 
interested and may even be making some technical contributions sooner or 
later.



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