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Hi, I'm Scott Fegette, product manager for Dreamweaver. Today I'd like to tell you a little but about a feature called W3C Validation. It probably sounds a little bit obvious, but if you noticed, in CS5 we removed our old validator in Dreamweaver. The reason being, it was very outdated and often gave false positives and basically told you that your site might have been valid when, in some cases, it wasn't. So this is problem, in the fact that we had our validator local on your hard drive, so it couldn't get updated; it was always falling a little bit behind the times. Quite frankly, we always struggled to keep it up to date too. But in Dreamweaver CS5.5, we've completely replaced it with something a little bit better. So we've got this project right here, and we'd like to validate it. Well, all you need to do is come on down to the Window menu, go under Results, and choose the new W3C Validation option. And to do this--you've got the W3C Validation pane in the results panel, and you can kick something off right away. So let's take a look at the settings, first. You've got a few new doc types. In the document, itself, you can choose which doc type to validate against. Html5 is experimental right now; it's still being settled down in the browsers, but you've got access to all the other types, all the way down to svg, smil, mapml, you name it-- lots of good stuff to validate against here. We're going to leave it on html5 and go ahead and validate the current document-- get a little validation notice, letting you know that we're actually going out to the live W3C servers to get this information, so no more worrying about whether it's outdated or not; this is coming straight from the source. When we click Okay, it's going to go off and do it's thing, and we'll find there's a few values that it's got wrong here, but oh my gosh, someone's put a font tag in our code! Well let's get that out right away, because we know that that's no longer cool or accepted in html. So once that's gone, we can then, of course, start working through our results panel, to address these based on the doc type and the type of html we're writing for, and basically, really quickly, simply, and easily get a clear snapshot of how our code's looking up against the current W3C specs, make changes if appropriate, and deliver some better code to our customers. So I hope you enjoyed this little peek into W3C Validation in Dreamweaver CS5.5. By all means, keep posted to this channel on WTV. We're going to be posting a lot more videos with little sneak peeks and tips and tricks of all the great new things you can do on Dreamweaver CS5.5. Thanks a lot--talk to you next time.
