Safari Tidy plugin is a small plugin that lets you validate the webpages you browse for (X)HTML compliance. The actual validation is done by Tidy.
How it works... In the bottom right corner of each browser window you will see the amount of warnings and errors the current page has, along with a small icon. Clicking on the icon will show the source of the current page. The default 'view-source' window of Safari is extended so that it shows all the errors and warnings in a list. The lines containing errors are highlighted so they can be located easily. Doubleclicking on a warning or
What's New
Version 0.2.8 is compatible with 64-bit Safari 4 on Snow Leopard, added the W3C validation engine.
Requirements
PPC / Intel, Mac OS X 10.5 or later, Safari 4, SIMBL.
There is a new Safari extension for Safari 5 by the same developer called Safari Validator that doesn't use SIMBL. It works beautifully, except that it does not yet support HTML5, though I assume that it soon will. Clicking "View developer's site" above will take you to a page where you can download either the new Safari 5 extension or the older version using SIMBL for older versions of Safari. Congratulations to Kasper Nauwelaerts for developing this so quickly!
The new Safari 5 extension states 64-bit Intel only.
How do you know if you have 64-bit (I presume the Intel chips went from 32 to 64 at some point, and that it's not just redundant)?
indispensable safari addition for any web developer.
omnipresent yet unobtrusive (x)html validation.
shows errors as well as warnings.
great stuff. thanks a lot!
Anyone know if v0.2.6 is backwards compatible with Safari 3? The requirements at MU don't mention Safari versions. The download page on the developer site claims "Latest version for Safari 3.2.1: safari-tidy-0.2.5.tgz" so it seems v0.2.6 won't work with Safari 3.2.1.
I've found this to be an amazingly helpful tool, especially when i've been writing web apps, helps me to debug when i've missed something in the markup.
An Issue I have with it (VERSION 0.2.5) however is it occasionally / frequently claims there are unexpected / which can mean the the / haven't been nested correctly or its an extra closing with no matching opening .
If This could be somehow scripted to say "incorrectly nested opening / closing but possible opening / closing Found " & / or "missing opening / closing " or something along those lines that would be Brilliant
The popup which notifies me of an update freezes my source window. It will not allow me to dismiss it, nor can I update. I have to restart Safari to get rid of it.
Works great, as usual. Mine still identifies itself as v. 0.2.4 in the Preference pane.
If you want to add syntax coloring to the source view, the new version of SafariSource works with this version of Safari Tidy.
http://www.tildesoft.com/Misc.html
When I install SafariTidy 0.2.5 with SafariStand 3.1L161, pages load, but tab titles remain as "loading" with a spinner. If I remove either extension, all works ok. Unfortunately SafariStand is more important to me (Remembers open tabs), but I'd love to see this clash resolved.
I'm on a MacBook with 10.5.2, Safari 3.1.
There seems to be a bit of a glitch in the validation. I keep getting the following warning on this line of code:
' escaping malformed URI reference'
Double clicking the warning highlights the 'n' in 'span' specifically. The page validates with both dreamweaver's built in validator and the W3C validator, so something is wrong w/ the plug-in. Any ideas?
Also, has anyone else using this noticed just how few pages actually validate?
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Safari Tidy plugin is a small plugin that lets you validate the webpages you browse for (X)HTML compliance. The actual validation is done by Tidy.
How it works... In the bottom right corner of each browser window you will see the amount of warnings and errors the current page has, along with a small icon. Clicking on the icon will show the source of the current page. The default 'view-source' window of Safari is extended so that it shows all the errors and warnings in a list. The lines containing errors are highlighted so they can be located easily. Doubleclicking on a warning or error in the list will position the cursor at the correct location in the HTML source text.
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How do you know if you have 64-bit (I presume the Intel chips went from 32 to 64 at some point, and that it's not just redundant)?
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mkay reviewed on 11 Jun 2009
omnipresent yet unobtrusive (x)html validation.
shows errors as well as warnings.
great stuff. thanks a lot!
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Dan Web Dever reviewed on 06 Feb 2009
An Issue I have with it (VERSION 0.2.5) however is it occasionally / frequently claims there are unexpected / which can mean the the / haven't been nested correctly or its an extra closing with no matching opening .
If This could be somehow scripted to say "incorrectly nested opening / closing but possible opening / closing Found " & / or "missing opening / closing " or something along those lines that would be Brilliant
Cheers
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Otherwise, this is a great program.
I am on Tiger 10.4.11, using Safari 3.1.
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If you want to add syntax coloring to the source view, the new version of SafariSource works with this version of Safari Tidy.
http://www.tildesoft.com/Misc.html
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I'm on a MacBook with 10.5.2, Safari 3.1.
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' escaping malformed URI reference'
Double clicking the warning highlights the 'n' in 'span' specifically. The page validates with both dreamweaver's built in validator and the W3C validator, so something is wrong w/ the plug-in. Any ideas?
Also, has anyone else using this noticed just how few pages actually validate?