First, I KNOW that the full validators are picky and annoying and sometimes downright wrong.

That said, I tried to run a nice automated validator (W3C LogValidator) over a lightweight site in Corolla, and got a slew of complaints - not from the HTML, but from the CSS checker.

base.css 31 errors
style.css 74 errors
colors.css 8 errors

Now, don't panic as most of these are about the custom moz- or webkit- rounded corners and extensions. I thought the validator would know how to ignore them however...
Does anyone know a way of making them 'allowed' in the strict validator?

Anyway, on a working (dev) site I also got a load of warnings about foreground-background colors coming out the same. Not sure if that's actually what's happening.

I'll go looking for a legal way of adding borders that the validator won't complain about, but thought I'd note this issue for consideration at some point.

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Jarek Foksa’s picture

Jarek Foksa CreditAttribution: Jarek Foksa commented
Category: task » support

Yeah, W3C validator does not recognize many CSS3 properties, especially those defined in working drafts.

I validated current version of Corolla for Drupal 6 using the new Unicorn validator. Out of 80 errors I got for CSS3 profile, I haven't found any properties/values that would violate CSS3 specs.

I guess the best thing we can do is to wait until W3C upgrades the validator.

dman’s picture

dman CreditAttribution: dman commented

Yeah, it was Unicorn I was looking at. I thought there was something I'd missed about how to use new CSS extensions without triggering "error"s. "Warnings" I could live with. I thought the syntax allowed for that. Not found the right syntax yet.

Jarek Foksa’s picture

Jarek Foksa CreditAttribution: Jarek Foksa commented

The syntax for vendor extensions (-moz-property-name, -webkit-property-name) is even defined in
CSS2 specification. I really have no idea why validator marks them as errors instead of warnings.

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dman CreditAttribution: dman commented

OK, We'll blame the validator for now then.