Webcheck todo list

["m.v.wesstein" <m.v.wesstein [at] hccnet.nl>]

Hello

I tried your program today and I'm glad to report it works once I copied 
the entire directory into the location you suggested in the README file, 
as well as making both sym-links. Thanks for making this software 
possible, very useful indeed.

A few points if I may:

a) there is no referral in the README on how to access the processed 
data and where to find it. This would be a quick "fix" though. Perhaps 
you could amend the program to have it automatically creates a temporary 
directory, using the URL as base for the name, if the -o flag is 
omitted. (i.e. when the link refers to http://www.example.com the temp 
dir would be named "example", unless the user specifies the dir with -o 
<mydir>)

b) in the TODO list you've mentioned checking for W3C conformance. Not 
being a coder you might be interested in this line of thought: the W3C 
validator at http://validator.w3.org refers to the link under test (LUT) 
in the request, like this:
http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=${URL}&charset=(detect+automatically)&doctype=Inline&group=0 
where ${URL} is the LUT. On the results page a snippet of HTML code is 
offered to the owner for inclusion on that page if the page is valid. It 
centres around an image found at http://www.w3.org/Icons/valid-html401 
so it's relatively easy to check the results page for this link to 
determine the page is W3C compliant. There are more images on the W3C 
site though, like XHTML, XML, CSS, etc. Also, I doubt the W3C would be 
very happy if someone hammers their validator service with multiple 
site/page checks in short succession... IIRC there's a Debian package 
for an offline validator, which would be easy to include as a dependency 
in a Debian package.

c) on the subject of packages: Webcheck has the potential to become the 
default web-checking tool for the OSS community. This is, however, 
hampered by the lack of packages for various distributions: in Debian 
Stable no package is available. In principle, only 2 packages have to be 
created: an RPM version for Red Hat and similar and a Debian package 
that can also be used by its derivatives like Ubuntu, Mint, etc.

I'm happy to attempt to build a Debian package if that helps you further.

Kind regards,

Vincent Wesstein
the Netherlands
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