Time for a new HTML Validator?
Ian Hickson: If we truly want to make authors have better tools for making their content more compliant, a start would be having the W3C invest more genuinely in its validators. The W3C HTML Validator is one of the user agents that ignores the Content-Type header when it comes to HTML vs XHTML; filed as bug 1500 about a year ago, still unfixed.
Saying that the validator is somebody else’s problem only works if you don’t believe that the problem is important.
If people feel that HTML 5 deserves a better validator, I’m willing to invest some time into coding. Are there others interesting in contributing to the coding, the writing up of test cases, or the authoring of documentation?
Another thing that will be needed down the road is somebody to host it. I host the Feed Validator and that gets plenty enough traffic as is, I can only imagine what kind of traffic an HTML validator would have.