# HG changeset patch
# User Jeff Hammel <k0scist@gmail.com>
# Date 1604441511 28800
# Node ID 73434c2db108606df2c0a63c5a5173c576064ad5
# Parent  8f30c2f702bc1873b3de301b7812b48bf0a02fd8
soft-deprecate validate_css method

diff -r 8f30c2f702bc -r 73434c2db108 bitsyblog/utils.py
--- a/bitsyblog/utils.py	Tue Nov 03 14:07:56 2020 -0800
+++ b/bitsyblog/utils.py	Tue Nov 03 14:11:51 2020 -0800
@@ -3,8 +3,6 @@
 import cgi
 import datetime
 import os
-import urllib
-import urllib2
 
 import docutils
 import docutils.core
@@ -33,12 +31,9 @@
 
 
 def validate_css(css):
-    """use a webservice to determine if the argument is valid css"""
-    url = 'http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/validator?text=%s'
-    url = url % urllib.quote_plus(css)
-    foo = urllib2.urlopen(url)
-    text = foo.read()
-    return not 'We found the following errors' in text # XXX hacky
+    # DEPRECATED!  Just return `True` for now
+    return True
+
 
 def date(datestamp):
     datestamp = os.path.split(datestamp)[-1]