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IE6 countdown started

Many do not like using IE6, for such there is a news IE6 countdown is coming to 1% from 6%. Do your bit by joining the cause in http://www.theie6countdown.com You also have a new and a great looking IE9 released. Enjoy working on it.

Extract all URLs in a web page

Excellent way of extracting all URLs from a web page. If you have a web page and you want to extract the URLs in complete web application, there is a way. Go to http://www.web-max.ca/PHP/misc_23.php, enter the URL in the text box given at the end of the php code. It crawls the entire web page and extracts all the URLs in the web pages and provides the list. Copy and paste it in the excel. Thanks for the Cool code.

Factors for link testing

Link testing Many feel its just clicking the links, but it is not so. It has many factors which are supposed to be checked when testing the links in any web application. Factors for link testing 1. Check the link style- color,font,color when already visited 2. Check the tool tip for the link 3. Check the navigation of the link - Navigating to a web page in same window - Navigating to a web page in different window - Opening a document in same page - Opening a document in different window - opening an image or video 4. Check the parameters saved in cookie if the application is localized 5. Any identification if it is an external link. 6. Performance of the link 7. Time taken for navigation of the link There are many tools or link checkers which navigate through the complete web application and provide the list of breaking URLs. I suggest Xenu link checker. Observe these key factors when using link checker for testing links 1. Link checkers can take web page as in