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Saturday, November 13, 2004
Fundanemt power tool - Site validator

I have just committed the first version of a new series of extensions to Fundanemt - power tools. Power users has requested added functionality that would make their life maintaining Fundanemt websites easier. As a power user and developer my self, I decided to do something about this need and a few weeks ago I created the first power tool, a tool to validate all pages on a Fundanemt website and check for broken links.
During this week I used the tool quite frequently to test all my qte.dk pages in order to help Christian debug a difficult Fundanemt bug. Instead of having to manually validate +50 pages I could just click "Validate" in the tool and a minute later the result would appear. While trying to fix the bug, the error moved from one page to another so it was nice to see which pages did not validate after updating from cvs.
Today I sat down and cleaned up the code, added support for selecting which pages to validate and made a prettier result-list, and finally committed the tool to cvs so others could start playing with it.
I still have some items in my TODO file for the tool, so stay tuned for more updates.
During this week I used the tool quite frequently to test all my qte.dk pages in order to help Christian debug a difficult Fundanemt bug. Instead of having to manually validate +50 pages I could just click "Validate" in the tool and a minute later the result would appear. While trying to fix the bug, the error moved from one page to another so it was nice to see which pages did not validate after updating from cvs.
Today I sat down and cleaned up the code, added support for selecting which pages to validate and made a prettier result-list, and finally committed the tool to cvs so others could start playing with it.
I still have some items in my TODO file for the tool, so stay tuned for more updates.
- Add CSS validation using jigsaw.w3.org
- Button to remove selection of all pages
posted by Brian Jørgensen at 8:30pm.
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