v4.2 [Jul 10, 2013]
improvements to interface for productivity:
- Changes the 'by link' view to an expandable view, occurrences can be seen by expanding view rather than as previously having to open the link inspector
- Link inspector still appears on double-click from link views and is improved
- Adds context menus to the 'by link' and 'by page' views and the 'appears on' table in the link inspector - a number of actions can be performed with a right-click (or control-click) including 'Copy URL' and where appropriate Visit, Highlight and Locate
- The new Copy URL action is available with a command-C and will copy the URL of the selected item
- A new Locate action lists how to click through from the starting url to find the link in question. It is available via context menus, the link inspector and cmd-shift-L
- Adds 'link text' column to 'by page' view
- Change to wording: 'on page' now 'appears on'
- Changes default for highlighting a link on the page - now looks like highlighter pen rather than a box around it (changes prefs defaults to 'background' rather than 'border', and changes the default colour to yellow rather than dark grey - ie (existing users can select this option in prefs if they like))
Also:
- Ignores and continues if 'bad SSL certificate' warning is encountered. But only for the website being tested. (anything else, ie external links, won't be followed anyway)
- If image checking is switched on, now collects alt text and displays in 'link text' columns
- Some options removed from Preferences>Views>By Link view (Status, URL, On Page) because these are needed for the new outline view to work properly
- Exporting from 'by link' view better than previously. (was putting all 'on page' information in a single cell to reflect the view - led to problems due to Excel's 256-character limit)
- Export added to by Page view
- Exports from expandable views reflect the state of the view, ie which rows are expanded or not
v3.0
- Able to schedule crawl via iCal with optional repeat. (Instructions added to manual.) CLI-minded people can use cron to do the same thing.
- SEO keyword analysis searches content. This feature has to be switched on in preferences as it uses more of your computer's resources duringt the crawl
- Adds sorting (by clicking on table headers) to all tables
- Adds filtering and sorting to SEO view when a keyword or phrase is typed
- Black / whitelists can apply to content as well as url (new checkbox below black / whitelist fields) -
- Blacklisteded urls can be flagged (option in preferences)
- Many internal changes making crawl slightly quicker and significantly more memory-efficient, larger sites can be crawled in one go
- All statuses are shown for redirected links rather than just the final one
- SEO table url column displays final url for redirected urls rather than the redirected one
- New options in prefs for:
- checking content for seo keywords (must be checked before crawling site)
- flagging blacklisted or whitelisted urls (remember that you can blacklist or whitelist keywords in the content now too)
- password field in Advanced settings is now a secure text field - hides the password from view
- Adds 'Clear and Re-start' to File menu
- Fixes 'follow whitelist' box not being saved with settings in web distribution
- Fixes total image weight calculation in main SEO table
- Measures in place to limit problems caused by extraneous and invisible characters entering the url field with a copy and paste
