Jun 13: Validation Graphs

After having a some fun with the Page Graphs, I eventually made an old dream of mine reality: Builing a small program which does link checking and page validation while spidering a website. Combined with the particle graph visualization method, it is a great tool to get a quick overview of a website's structure and validation status.
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Website Validation Graph
After playing with Website structure graph app, Peter has started a new kewl particle graph tool which displays a whole website with validation information from the w3c validation tool. This is really great because the result is an overview of your ...
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#1 - Verethra 2006-06-16 17:04 - (Reply)

Great stuff, too bad I know too little about java to help out on this thing.. cause it has great potential I believe.

#2 - David 2006-10-27 17:26 - (Reply)

Sorry, this doesn't work on Mac OS X, since there is no Java 1.5 for it yet. Mac users need something that will work. And it would also be really nice if you allowed people to save in .ps and .ai formats in case they want to manipulate the graphs in Adobe Irritator or Freehand. You could also put a contact email address on your blog or even a contact form.

#3 - David 2006-11-04 06:47 - (Reply)

There seem to be a few quirks in your .jar file: resizing the window larger makes the graph zoom forward, so parts of it are outside the visible window. Resizing smaller causes it to zoom out, but not enough to get the whole graph back in the visible area. Also, you don't provide any way to save the results as a .ai or .pdf file, which is needed if you want to manipulate or add to the image using Adobe Illustrator or FreeHand. How soon can you fix these problems?

#4 - Data recovery Moscow said:
2009-05-28 10:18 - (Reply)

Is this applet able to show broken links? Has development ever continued towards w3c validation? Thanks!

#4.1 - Peter said:
2009-05-28 10:27 - (Reply)

It shows broken links in yellow (see text) and it used the w3c validator. But I didn't touch the whole thing since 2006, so there might be changes in the w3c api and it doesn't work any longer.

#5 - Data recovery Moscow said:
2009-05-29 07:47 - (Reply)

Is this applet available for download?

#5.1 - Peter said:
2009-05-29 13:04 - (Reply)

Look here http://blog.peter1402.de/pages/validation_graphs.html

#6 - Christopher Richey 2009-11-17 09:35 - (Reply)

Great work, Peter. Is there a form of this that will only map 'browser clicks', thereby, creating a literal 'surfing map' that can be displayed visually? I invision a 'mind-map' that connects itself as research is done that can be edited in real-time without having to manually add every single node.


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