getting ready for 0.8.0 beta1

4 files changed, 36 insertions, 8 deletions

diff --git a/htdocs/footer.html b/htdocs/footer.html
index bcf817a..1e47cda 100755
--- a/htdocs/footer.html
+++ b/htdocs/footer.html
@@ -23,6 +23,9 @@
 
 			</a>
 		</p>
+    <p id="version_info">
+      This is the W3C Markup Validator, <a href="whatsnew.html#t2007-04-19"><abbr title="version">v</abbr>0.8.0-beta1</a>. 
+    </p>
 
 		<p class="copyright">
 			<a rel="Copyright" href="http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Legal/ipr-notice#Copyright">Copyright</a> &copy; 1994-2007
diff --git a/htdocs/intro.html b/htdocs/intro.html
index c4f5980..273d492 100644
--- a/htdocs/intro.html
+++ b/htdocs/intro.html
@@ -9,7 +9,4 @@
         or to <a href="http://validator.w3.org/checklink" title="W3C Link Checker">find broken links</a>, 
  there are <a href="http://www.w3.org/QA/Tools/">other validators and tools</a> available.
       </p>
-    <p>This is the markup Validator v0.8.0-dev. 
-    Latest Stable release of the validator was 
-    <a href="whatsnew.html#t2006-11-14">version 0.7.4, released 14 Nov, 2006</a>.</p>
 </div>
diff --git a/htdocs/style/base.css b/htdocs/style/base.css
index 70c1e41..ac315ed 100644
--- a/htdocs/style/base.css
+++ b/htdocs/style/base.css
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
    Copyright 2000~2007 W3C (MIT, INRIA, Keio). All Rights Reserved.
    See http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Legal/ipr-notice.html#Copyright
 
-   $Id: base.css,v 1.9 2007-04-12 07:18:15 ot Exp $
+   $Id: base.css,v 1.10 2007-04-18 07:23:00 ot Exp $
 */
 
 /*                 
@@ -447,6 +447,15 @@ ul.navbar li a {
 /* 
 	legalese and logos beneath the menu bar
 							*/
+p#version_info {
+    font-size:      x-small;
+    text-align: center;
+    color: #888;
+    background-color: white;
+    margin-top:     20px;
+    margin-left:    210px;
+    margin-right: 240px;
+}
 
 p#activity_logos {
 float:left; 
@@ -460,7 +469,6 @@ float: right; width: 180px; padding: 0; margin-top: 12px; font-size: x-small; te
 
                                                             
 p.copyright {
-  margin-top:     20px;
   margin-left:    210px;
   margin-right: 240px;
   font-size:      x-small;
diff --git a/htdocs/whatsnew.html b/htdocs/whatsnew.html
index ff0b29c..21832d8 100755
--- a/htdocs/whatsnew.html
+++ b/htdocs/whatsnew.html
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
-<!--#set var="revision" value="\$Id: whatsnew.html,v 1.58 2007-04-02 08:48:17 ville Exp $"
---><!--#set var="date" value="\$Date: 2007-04-02 08:48:17 $"
+<!--#set var="revision" value="\$Id: whatsnew.html,v 1.59 2007-04-18 07:22:59 ot Exp $"
+--><!--#set var="date" value="\$Date: 2007-04-18 07:22:59 $"
 --><!--#set var="title" value="What's New at The W3C Markup Validation Service"
 --><!--#set var="relroot" value="./"
 --><!--#include virtual="header.html" -->
@@ -18,7 +18,27 @@
       </p>
     </div>
     <dl id="news">
-        
+        <dt id="t2007-04-19">2007-04-19 &mdash; 0.8.0 Beta 1:</dt>
+        <dd>
+          <p>Testing version 0.8.0 Beta #1 of the Markup Validator; a new version including
+            important changes in architecture, performance, reliability of validation for XML-based languages,
+            improvements to the User Interface, and a number of new features. Changes include:</p>
+          <ul>
+            <li>New architecture, faster and more reliable, scaling better to the growing usage of the validator</li>
+            <li>Improved interface for better usability, accessibility</li>
+            <li>New feature: automatic cleanup of markup (with Tidy)</li>
+            <li>New feature: additional XML-Well-Formedness check, for more reliable validation of XML-based languages</li>
+            <li>Back by popular demand: document outline feature</li>
+            <li>New feature: checking that the documents are sent with proper Internet Media Type (MIME type)</li>
+            <li>New feature: for XML documents, checking that the xmlns is present, and properly set.</li>
+            <li>New feature: grouped messages, an alternate view to the sequential display of errors</li>
+            <li>New feature: Direct Input validation can check full documents AND HTML fragments</li>
+            <li>Added support for SMIL 2.1, XHTML Basic 1.1</li>
+            <li>Bug fixes</li>
+          </ul>
+          <p><strong>Participate in this Beta Test</strong>! 
+            Read the <a href="http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-validator/2007Apr/@@@@">Instructions</a> and start testing.</p>
+        </dd>
         <dt id="t2006-11-14">2006-11-14 &mdash; 0.7.4 Release:</dt>
         <dd>
           <p>Releasing version 0.7.4 of the W3C Markup Validator,