Opera 9.5 (Kestrel) Alpha is out

[MarcLister]

Haven't really been using the latest Kestrel builds. Sorry.

But I have been wondering if there is a tool or plugin for Opera that enables me to validate HTML/XHTML pages? Kind of like the Firefox validator extension.

[LeperousDust]

No idea mate, i don't do that kind of thing, i'll look around, checked the dev forums?

Erm, right click on the page and click validate, is that what you're after?

[Flibster]

I've had a couple of interestin things. They've fixed one of them, but the other hasn't been.

I can't export my feed list - just crashes.

[MarcLister]

Originally Posted by LeperousDust

No idea mate, i don't do that kind of thing, i'll look around, checked the dev forums?

Erm, right click on the page and click validate, is that what you're after?

Yeah I know about that. However it takes you to the W3C site. I was wondering if there was an Opera version of the Firefox extension that shows a bar at the bottom of the window. If the page validates, you see a green tick. So an in-house sort of thing rather than passing the page to an external validator.

[LeperousDust]

No idea, i'd guess thats actually quite tricky are you sure the firefox extension doesn't talk to W3C anyway? Testing validation is surely quite intensive, or at least requires a lot of rules, and if the W3C change things you need updates too? Surely passing it to the men themselves is a better way?

I honestly have no idea though.

Flib. I can't stand the primitive feed manager with opera (and mail client at that too). I use (thanks to Daz) google reader for everything now, so so much nicer, and also works very well on my mobile

[MarcLister]

Quite sure. Scroll down to "Advantages" on the link below.

http://users.skynet.be/mgueury/mozilla/

[LeperousDust]

Apart from searching the forums and dev.opera.com i couldn't help you, it's really not my thing sorry...

[Joe 90]

Originally Posted by MarcLister

But I have been wondering if there is a tool or plugin for Opera that enables me to validate HTML/XHTML pages? Kind of like the Firefox validator extension.

unfortunately there aint - thats the one reason i still have FF installed - web dev toolbar and firebug.

Opera has a dev console but i don't like it and not many others do either...
I stick with FF for any dev work and Opera for my standard 'browsing'

[Joe 90]

btw...

if you want the Opera dev console then bookmark;

javascript:(function(){var ele=document.documentElement.appendChild(document.createElementNS('http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml','script','script'));ele.src='http://devfiles.myopera.com/tools/developer/8679/devConsole.js';ele.parentNode.removeChild(ele);;})()

[LeperousDust]

Unfortunately guys, all the good developer stuff is to come in Opera 10. But 10 will be a big major overhaul. 9.5 is the introduction of the new engine futhark, which replaces presto (which wasn't slow/bad anyway!) 10 will be a real leap/implementation of what the new engine can do!