Free on-Liner HTML BUG FINDER ?

Subject: Free on-Liner HTML BUG FINDER ?
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 05 Apr 23 - 06:33 AM

Free on-Liner HTML BUG FINDER ?
Has anyone any advice about this? When it occurred to me that there might be a free service available I googled it and found that there are many. Which ones do Mudcatters find safe and easy to use and are there any to avoid?
What about Free Formater . com ?    https://www.freeformatter.com/
or HTML corrector    https://www.htmlcorrector.com/
orThe Nu HTML5 Validator     https://html5.validator.nu/
or     https://www.softwaretestinghelp.com/html-validator/

Subject: RE: Free on-Liner HTML BUG FINDER ?
From: DaveRo
Date: 05 Apr 23 - 07:09 AM

I would go straight to the W3C validator:
https://validator.w3.org/

I trust MDN - the Mozilla Development Network
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Glossary/Validator

Mind you, lots of html errors found by validators don't stop it working. Browsers are tolerant by design.

Subject: RE: Free on-Liner HTML BUG FINDER ?
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 05 Apr 23 - 10:16 AM

The pages I work on are usually short enough that I just read through the source code to find the error. But in larger pages and different context, the www source w3 validator would be a good place.

Usually if you're using an editor (Dreamweaver, etc.) it finds those things for you, closes tags, etc. Are you hand coding?

Subject: RE: Free on-Liner HTML BUG FINDER ?
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 08 Apr 23 - 02:12 PM

In a related but different vein, have you ever used a Unicode editor? When looking at LinkedIn I came across mention of using Unicode to make a few things like italics and bold and underline display on some post forms that otherwise won't allow formatting using HTML. (A different part of their site does allow formatting, on "articles," a step up from regular posts.) A search brings up a 2001 mention of MS DOS Unicode editors but I don't think there are even fragments of that in Windows any more. I know how to type it (isn't it pretty much like BBCode?)

One site recommended is YayText.

Subject: RE: Free on-Liner HTML BUG FINDER ?
From: DaveRo
Date: 08 Apr 23 - 05:03 PM

You can't in general use unicode to add decoration like bold and underline to alphanumeric characters. What YayText does (based on a quick look) is generate homoglyphs - characters that happen to be bold or whatever and have a similar appearance. It's a party trick - like generating upside-down or mirror characters.

Homoglyphs are used in 'homoglyph attacks' - to fool people that a URL or email address is genuine by substituting similar characters, eg
mybаnk.com instead of
mybank.com

BBCode works with forums that support it - they still exist. It's a simplified form of html and is turned into real html when a post is displayed.

Subject: RE: Free on-Liner HTML BUG FINDER ?
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 08 Apr 23 - 07:05 PM

Good to know. I know the characters you mean - I can see them but they don't seem to be readable to the algorithms that try to weed out spam in twitter and instagram responses. So that's how they do it.

Subject: RE: Free on-Liner HTML BUG FINDER ?
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 09 Apr 23 - 01:39 PM

Not complaining about the over-use of capitals, but . . .

The heading did scream at me for a Burly Chassis song:

"Hey bug finder,
Find a little bug for me!"

Subject: RE: Free on-Liner HTML BUG FINDER ?
From: GUEST
Date: 28 May 24 - 03:45 AM

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