Completely out of date with the introduction of Firefox plugins such as Web Developper, favelets were also very tendance at some time.

• W3C validate
• 
  W3C validate w/options
• W3C CSS validate
• WDG validate
• 
  WDG validate w/options
• CAST validate (CAST , aka Bobby, soon came out of fashion, because it produced invalid results).

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• DevEdge article about validating by E. Meyer.
• Tantek excellent source of wisdom about well formed HTML code: Bed and Breakfast, aka the 3^rd rule outa 7 (because Tantek announced 7 rules, but I doubt he came to write about all the 7), HTML4 strict tags & CSS2

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A the time I started soours.com on dixiesys, there was a lengthy discussion around the web design community (what was to become the WaSP), about the bad habit of opening another window (remember, those were pre-Firefox days, tabbed browsing was in infancy), mainly using target=_"blank". Read about it in this discussion on a W3C forum. I also remember that Jeffrey Zeldman used the not-so-well documented target=_"eljefe".

• I originally linked to the new window bookmarklet. Today this site is mostly about music.
• I first encountered Simon Willison by reading his thoughts about target=_ »blank » & valid XHTML
• Also around the same time, I linked to david gagne‘s blogdata and Scott Andrew‘s archives. Why ?

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• ALA’s (w/ php)
• CttS’s comments
• Peter Hawkes’s better way (w/o cookies)
• contrastweb’s
• THE Alternate Switcher

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