RightWebPage free validation tool for Mac OS X
Posted on January 30, 2009 by admin
Another interesting program for Mac OS X, that I have discovered recently is a free web page code validator – RightWebPage by Andrea D. Luis Silva. Each program I describe is tested by me personally at one of my Macs, so I decided to check validation of one of my websites, and more specifically one of the blogs. The Polish one – mackozer.pl.
At the start up program asks some questions about the page to whom will be given a thorough inspection, application let us set various options and settings (eg type of browser that is simulated, its language version, the resolution screen, etc.). After providing all the necessary information and the simulated web browser settings, the program carries out an in-depth test on the page and displays a window with a report. By default, it is divided into three parts. The left-hand panel hosts the snapshot of the website, the upper panel shows the detailed report with information about the detected bugs or items that are to change. Lower panel is a preview of the code. The program evaluates not only the quality of the code, but also the page usability, for example, assesses whether page is given an appropriate length of terms of the resolution – so that visitors do not have to spend too much time on scrolling it down . I must admit that both of my blogs are full of bugs, that were pointed out by RightWebPage. However many of these bugs, are part of Wordpress blog engine, and there are also such items in the report, which that I don’t agree with, such as recognition of all the links in the drop down archives, recognized by RightWebPage to be dead. Anyway, in the near future, both blogs need to be rebuilt, at that time RightWebPage will be pretty handy tool.
The program can be downloaded from its homepage: http://rightwebpage.org/
Comments (1)
I agree that the program evaluates not only the quality of the code, but also the page usability.