Re: useful QA gizmo: check popular docs for HTML validity

From: Nick Kew (nick@webthing.com)
Date: Sun, Sep 30 2001

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    Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2001 11:47:58 +0100 (BST)
    From: Nick Kew <nick@webthing.com>
    To: Gerald Oskoboiny <gerald@w3.org>
    cc: www-qa@w3.org, www-validator@w3.org
    Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0109301132001.320-100000@fenris.webthing.com>
    Subject: Re: useful QA gizmo: check popular docs for HTML validity
    
    
    When I got your message, I set Site Valet to start spidering www.w3.org.
    Since it is a well-behaved spider (doesn't flood your site), it probably
    hasn't got all your pages yet, but there's enough to be interesting.
    
    See
    http://valet.webthing.com/intranet/report/pages?valid=Report&markup=0&url=www.w3.org
    for report.
    
    Interesting to note that it gets some documents at different URLS:
    e.g. 
    
    >    278      796   http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-png.html
    
    is shown as
    	http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-png
    since this is the URL by which it is referenced in other pages (the report
    currently lists six pages referencing this one).  A nice illustration of
    the difference between what the Client sees (spider) and what the Server
    sees (log analysis).
    
    Any of the other reports at <URL:http://valet.webthing.com/intranet/>
    should now also generate useful results for www.w3.org.
    
    -- 
    Nick Kew
    
    Site Valet - the essential service for anyone with a website.
    <URL:http://valet.webthing.com/>