Re: Webcheck todo list

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

Thanks for your reply. I've inserted my comments below.

Arthur de Jong wrote:
<snip>

> The default location is the current directory (it is in the README
> file). The starting point is the index.html file. Perhaps some other
> default output directory would be better, however this could get complex
> and ugly with longer URLs. Perhaps making the -o option mandatory is a
> way to go?

I see your point. Having a mandatory -o flag does make a user more aware 
of where the output can be found (I figured it out quickly too ;-)) I 
think I must have missed it in the README, apologies.


> I don't think it is nice to hit the W3C validator for a possibly very
> large number of pages that webcheck visits. Also, webcheck can use the
> tidy interface that does most of the validity checking already locally
> (it seems the TODO file is somewhat out-of-date). The Debian package has
> a recommendation on python-utidylib for that.

Exactly what I intended to suggest. It appears that some files in the 
package are a bit outdated indeed, as are some webpages for this project.

> A Debian package is available for some time (it even was in etch):
>    http://packages.debian.org/webcheck
> but if you have any improvements feel free to contribute them.
>
> I don't know much about creating RPMs though but I think there are
> several RPMs floating around out there.

I now realise my error when searching for a "web checker"... Had I used 
"web check" as my search string instead, I'd probably found the package 
in the Debian repo's. Apologies, entirely my mistake. I'm afraid I don't 
have any improvements to offer, other then a translation to Dutch. But I 
have the impression you have proper skills in that langauge too ;-)

Best regards from Den Haag,

Vincent Wesstein
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