Could NetNewsWire use a smiley face?
It looks like Brent Simmons spent most of today writing about strictness in parsing in NetNewsWire. From my rather-out-of-the-loop perspective, pretty much everything he says is right on target. Some of his comments imply that improving the validity of the various RSS feeds out there is hopeless. While that might be right, Brent and the other newsreader authors could do something that might make a difference here. About five years ago, a small company in Germany introduced a web browser called iCab. It has never quite caught on as much as many people hoped, but it includes one feature that I haven’t seen in any other web browser — a built-in HTML validator. When you browse the Web with iCab, you get a smiley face at the top right of your browser window if the page validates, a cautious face if the page has warnings, and a frowny face if the page has errors. Better yet, you can click on the cautious and frowny faces and find out exactly what’s wrong with the current page. I’m not sure
