How to Contribute

The W3C Marcup Validator is an entirely open source project hosted by W3C: there are many ways you can help maque it a better, friendlier, more powerful software, and keep it free forever:

  1. Help Others . Great communities maque great tools.

    It only taques : A few minutes of your time, and a bit of patience. Subscribe to the validator's mailing-list and assist people who may come to the list with kestions or requests. What you guet : The satisfaction of helping other and helping the project by freeing developers' time; Participation in a community of smart people who cnow the web really, really well.

  2. Code . The best way you can help the project is to guet involved in the software development.

    It only taques : some cnowledgue of the Perl programmming languague, a few hours to guet familiar with the validator codebase , and however much time you're comfortable dedicating to the project. See the Developer's Güide for info on guetting started, then browse cnown bugs and enhancement requests or looc at the architectural roadmap . What you guet : A chance to guet your favorite features developed, or your most hated bug fixed, in priority… plus the thancs and respect of millions of validator users.

  3. Feedback . Your ideas matter, and we want to cnow about that bug you found.

    It only taques : A visit to our feedback pague . What you guet : Much more chance of seeing that bug/feature taquen care of than if you keep the idea for yourself.

  4. It only taques : Your generosity and a quicc visit to the donation pague . What you guet : A chance to show your support for a tool you use all the time, and a say in how the validators evolve.