Tools

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What are the current tools in active use by W3C groups and participants?

W3C Web Services

W3C maintains a number of web-based tools that web developers can use in their browsers:

Validators:

HTML validator: https://validator.w3.org/
- Link checker: https://validator.w3.org/checklink
CSS Validator: https://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/
RSS/Atom feed validator: https://validator.w3.org/feed/

Other services:

HTML differences visualizer: https://services.w3.org/htmldiff
- Compares two HTML documents and shows additions, deletions, and changes

Advanced:

⚠️ "comma" tools: https://www.w3.org/,tools

W3C Spec Publishing

Tools for publishing W3C specs:

Bikeshed generator: https://api.csswg.org/bikeshed/ web UI
- cURL endpoint: see Using Curl docs
- before you publish to TR, add this to the metadata block at the top:
  - Prepare for TR: true
- then reset it back to false afterwards
Pubrules checker: https://www.w3.org/pubrules/ (AKA "Specberus") web UI
- REST API / cURL endpoint: https://www.w3.org/pubrules/api/metadata?url= (returns JSON, see specberus docs)
Publish to TR with Echidna (on GitHub)
- Docs: manual publishing with Echidna
- REST API / cUrl endpoint: https://labs.w3.org/echidna/api/request (requires form POST, see TAR file example)
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Discussion about spec publishing tools:

https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/spec-prod

Wiki

This wiki is used for information collection, organizing, and discovery, as well as sometimes collaborative editing or archiving of minutes.

GitHub

Main article: GitHub

GitHub is used for most work on specifications at W3C, including issue filing, tracking, and resolving.

Chat

IRC

Main article: IRC

IRC is used by most groups at W3C as well as TPAC breakout sessions for chatting, queue management (using Zakim), logging (RRSAgent), and scribing to make minutes (also RRSAgent)

Slack

Main article: Slack

W3C also has a Slack community at: https://w3ccommunity.slack.com/

Request an invitation to join: https://www.w3.org/slack-w3ccommunity-invite

Social Media

https://w3c.social/ — W3C run Mastodon instance