I'm with Ben on this one. I learned loads after installing Firefox and
adding the validator and developer toolbar. I went to different sites
and ran them through the validator, saw the errors (or not) and learned
about how to and how not to code to standards.
Leslie Riggs
Keep them away from anything that isn't strictly standard-based (x)html
and CSS for a while. Let them work and test against real browsers and
the validators, and make sure IE/win doesn't get in the way with its
broken standard-support and tag-soup recovery.
Stick them on Firefox with these two extensions:
HTML VALIDATOR (based on Tidy)
http://users.skynet.be/mgueury/mozilla/
Validates as they view their pages, so they should always see the
beautiful green checkmark that says the HTML is valid. It has some
issues, but hopefully it will train them to cringe when they miss that
closing slash on their link tag.
WEB DEVELOPER
http://chrispederick.com/work/firefox/webdeveloper/
Web Developer is a toolbar with wonderful, wonderful abilities for
people learning CSS. Chief among them is the "Outline" menu and the
ability to switch styles off with a keystroke, IMO. The "Tools" menu
also trains them to validate, validate, validate.
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