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[_] Web page validation/static analysis tools

Tim Beadle tim.beadle at gmail.com
Tue Nov 13 10:58:23 GMT 2007

On 13/11/2007, Andy Davies <dajdavies at gmail.com> wrote:
> Currently working on a web app project where the development has been
> outsourced to India (wouldn't recommend it myself), and there's a
> problem getting our supplier to abide by the guidelines they've been
> given.
>
> So I'm looking for a validation tool that'll go beyond the W3C
> Validator and allow further rules to be specified e.g. warn when
> inline styles are used, error if onmouseover rather than a css pseudo
> class is used to change styles etc.
>
> I'm aware there's a bit of ParaSoft WebKing that can do this but
> looking for something that's not quite so expensive.
>
> Anyone got an ideas?

Could Selenium do this? I haven't played with it much, but it might be useful:
http://www.openqa.org/

There are several flavours, including remote-controllable and IDE
(runs in Firefox).

Tim