I plan to live forever. So far, so good.

A friend of mine gave me a link to an interesting turnaround on how to “view” a website. First, the website structure is parsed using HTMLParser, then the tags are displayed in a tree view using Processing and Traer Physics, using the following color codes:

blue: for links (the A tag)
red: for tables (TABLE, TR and TD tags)
green: for the DIV tag
violet: for images (the IMG tag)
yellow: for forms (FORM, INPUT, TEXTAREA, SELECT and OPTION tags)
orange: for linebreaks and blockquotes (BR, P, and BLOCKQUOTE tags)
black: the HTML tag, the root node
gray: all other tags

You can visit the page describing how it works and check out a few samples, or you can generate your own graph. The source code for the applet is also available.

Here’s the graph for tudy.ro:

Quite nice, I would say: lots of divs and links, a small table (the calendar) in the upper left side, a few scarce images here and there… You can clearly identifiy the main text on the page by all the paragraphs and the blockquotes. Awesome stuff!