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diff --git a/htdocs/whatsnew.html b/htdocs/whatsnew.html index 2a9aa58..e4a44df 100755 --- a/htdocs/whatsnew.html +++ b/htdocs/whatsnew.html @@ -1,17 +1,67 @@ -<!--#set var="revision" value="\$Id: whatsnew.html,v 1.25 2002-02-11 22:09:09 link Exp $" ---><!--#set var="date" value="\$Date: 2002-02-11 22:09:09 $" +<!--#set var="revision" value="\$Id: whatsnew.html,v 1.26 2002-08-20 01:51:23 link Exp $" +--><!--#set var="date" value="\$Date: 2002-08-20 01:51:23 $" --><!--#set var="title" value="What's New at The W3C HTML Validation Service" ---><!--#include virtual="/header.html" --> +--><!--#set var="relroot" value="./" +--><!--#include virtual="header.html" --> - <div class="intro"> + <div id="skip" class="intro"> <p> - This page lists recent changes to <a href="/">the W3C HTML Validation + This page lists recent changes to <a href="./">the <acronym + title="World Wide Web Consortium">W3C</acronym> <acronym + title="HyperText Markup Language">HTML</acronym> Validation Service</a>. For minor changes and bug fixes that aren't listed on this page, see <a href="http://dev.w3.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/validator/">the - CVS log</a>. + <acronym title="Concurrent Versions System">CVS</acronym> log</a>. </p> </div> <dl> + <dt><a name="2002-08-20">August 08, 2002</a>:</dt> + <dd> + <ul> + <li>Improved design of layout, including for Validation results.</li> + <li>Added "beefed up" Tip-of-the-Day.</li> + <li>Many accessibility fixes, both to the web site and the Result page.</li> + <li> + Major internal restructuring. The code has undergone significant + refactoring with many benefits. It is more readable and easier to + understand, much more robust, much improved security, more modular, + and performance should be significantly better. There is tentative + support for running under mod_perl (leading to even greater + performance enhancements) and memory consumption should be much + improved. + </li> + <li> + Many new document types are supported and support for some + existing document types has been improved. Notable changes + and additions include: + <ul> + <li>Support for <code>application/xhtml+xml</code>.</li> + <li> + Support for <acronym + title="eXtensible HyperText Markup Language">XHTML</acronym>+<acronym + title="Math Markup Language">MathML</acronym> and <a + href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/WD-XHTMLplusMathMLplusSVG-20020809/"><acronym + title="eXtensible HyperText Markup Language">XHTML</acronym>+<acronym + title="Math Markup Language">MathML</acronym>+<acronym + title="Scalable Vector Graphics">SVG</acronym></a>. + </li> + <li> + Support for <acronym + title="Scalable Vector Graphics">SVG</acronym> and <code>image/svg</code>. + </li> + <li> + <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/REC-xhtml1-20020801/"><acronym + title="eXtensible HyperText Markup Language">XHTML</acronym> + 1.0 Second Edition</a> and <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/"><acronym + title="eXtensible HyperText Markup Language">XHTML</acronym> + 1.1</a>. + </li> + </ul> + </li> + <li>Output has been reworked to be easier to understand.</li> + <li>And a whole bunch of bugfixes... :-)</li> + </ul> + </dd> <dt><a name="2001-10-06">October 06, 2001</a>:</dt> <dd> <ul> @@ -22,16 +72,21 @@ <dt><a name="2001-09-24">September 24, 2001</a>:</dt> <dd> <ul> - <li>Added experimental support for SVG 1.0.</li> - <li>Added experimental support for spec-prod 2.0.</li> + <li>Added experimental support for <acronym + title="Scalable Vector Graphics">SVG</acronym> 1.0.</li> + <li>Added experimental support for <code>spec-prod</code> 2.0.</li> <li>...and several minor bug fixes.</li> </ul> </dd> <dt><a name="2001-09-13">September 13, 2001</a>:</dt> <dd> <ul> - <li>Added support for XHTML 1.1 and XHTML Basic 1.0.</li> - <li>Added experimental support for MathML 2.0.</li> + <li>Added support for <acronym + title="eXtensible HyperText Markup Language">XHTML</acronym> 1.1 and + <acronym title="eXtensible HyperText Markup Language">XHTML</acronym> + Basic 1.0.</li> + <li>Added experimental support for <abbrev + title="Mathematical Markup Language">MathML</abbrev> 2.0.</li> <li>You can now tweak options from results page.</li> <li>Added option to override Character Encoding.</li> <li>Various bug fixes and minor changes.</li> @@ -42,7 +97,7 @@ <ul> <li>Various bugfixes; notably two related to the File Upload feature.</li> <li>Some changes to make local installations easier.</li> - <li>Support for more Character Encodings (e.g. ISO-8859-8-I).</li> + <li>Support for more Character Encodings (e.g. <code>ISO-8859-8-I</code>).</li> <li>Generally improved handling of Character Encodings.</li> <li>Documentation donated by Scott Bigham (Thanks Scott!).</li> </ul> @@ -50,51 +105,62 @@ <dt><a name="2000-10-18">October 18, 2000</a>:</dt> <dd> <p> - Added support for <a href="http://purl.org/NET/ISO+IEC.15445/15445.html">ISO/IEC 15445:2000</a> - (ISO-HTML). See also: <a href="http://purl.org/NET/ISO+IEC.15445/Users-Guide.html">User's Guide to - ISO-HTML</a>. + Added support for <a + href="http://purl.org/NET/ISO+IEC.15445/15445.html"><acronym + title="Internation Organization for Standardization">ISO</acronym>/<acronym + title="International Electrotechnical Commission">IEC</acronym> 15445:2000</a> + (<acronym title="Internation Organization for Standardization">ISO</acronym>-<acronym title="HyperText Markup Language">HTML</acronym>). + See also: <a href="http://purl.org/NET/ISO+IEC.15445/Users-Guide.html">User's + Guide to <acronym title="Internation Organization for Standardization">ISO</acronym>-<acronym title="HyperText Markup Language">HTML</acronym></a>. </p> </dd> <dt><a name="2000-06-30">June 30, 2000</a>:</dt> <dd> <p> - The service now checks XHTML documents for validity as well as - XML well-formedness. + The service now checks <acronym + title="eXtensible HyperText Markup Language">XHTML</acronym> documents + for validity as well as <acronym + title="eXtensible Markup Language">XML</acronym> well-formedness. </p> </dd> <dt><a name="2000-04-28">April 28, 2000</a>:</dt> <dd> <p> Added the <a href="file-upload.html">file upload</a> feature. - (Thanks to Terje Bless for the patches!) </p> <p> Created the <a href="http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-validator-cvs/">www-validator-cvs mailing list</a>. </p> <p> - Updated the <a href="/">home page</a>, moved some things to + Updated the <a href="./">home page</a>, moved some things to <a href="about.html">another page</a>. </p> </dd> <dt><a name="2000-01-26">January 26, 2000</a>:</dt> <dd> <p> - Updated <a href="sgml-lib/">the DTDs</a> and added + Updated <a href="sgml-lib/">the <acronym + title="Document Type Definitions">DTDs</acronym></a> and added <a href="images/">icons</a> for - <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2000/REC-xhtml1-20000126/">XHTML 1.0</a>, - <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/REC-html401-19991224/">HTML 4.01</a>. + <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2000/REC-xhtml1-20000126/"><acronym title="eXtensible HyperText Markup Language">XHTML</acronym> 1.0</a>, + <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/REC-html401-19991224/"><acronym + title="HyperText Markup Language">HTML</acronym> 4.01</a>. </p> </dd> <dt><a name="1999.08.24">August 24, 1999</a>:</dt> <dd> <p> - Added <a href="sgml-lib/PR-html40-19990824/">the DTDs</a> for - <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/PR-html40-19990824/">HTML 4.01</a>. + Added <a href="sgml-lib/PR-html40-19990824/">the <acronym + title="Document Type Definitions">DTDs</acronym></a> for + <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/PR-html40-19990824/"><acronym + title="HyperText Markup Language">HTML</acronym> 4.01</a>. </p> <p> - Updated <a href="sgml-lib/PR-xhtml1-19990824/">the DTDs</a> for - <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/PR-xhtml1-19990824/">XHTML 1.0</a>. + Updated <a href="sgml-lib/PR-xhtml1-19990824/">the <acronym + title="Document Type Definitions">DTDs</acronym></a> for + <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/PR-xhtml1-19990824/"><acronym + title="eXtensible HyperText Markup Language">XHTML</acronym> 1.0</a>. </p> </dd> <dt><a name="1999.04.08">April 8, 1999</a>:</dt> @@ -114,15 +180,18 @@ <dt><a name="1999.03.04">March 4, 1999</a>:</dt> <dd> <p> - Added support for <a href="http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/#future">XHTML</a>, - using the DTDs from <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/WD-html-in-xml-19990304/">the + Added support for <a href="http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/#future"><acronym + title="eXtensible HyperText Markup Language">XHTML</acronym></a>, + using the <acronym title="Document Type Definitions">DTDs</acronym> + from <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/WD-html-in-xml-19990304/">the 19990304 working draft</a>. (see <a href="http://dev.w3.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/validator/httpd/cgi-bin/check.diff?r1=text&tr1=1.13&r2=text&tr2=1.16&f=h">the changes</a>) </p> </dd> <dt><a name="1999.02.25">February 25, 1999</a>:</dt> <dd> <p> - Added support for ISO-2022-JP and Shift_JIS character encodings. + Added support for <code>ISO-2022-JP</code> and <code>Shift_JIS</code> + character encodings. Thanks to <a href="http://www.w3.org/People/W3Cpeople.html#Asada">Takuya Asada</a>, <a href="http://www.w3.org/People/W3Cpeople.html#Ishikawa">Masayasu Ishikawa</a>, and <a href="http://www.w3.org/People/D%C3%BCrst/">Martin @@ -130,7 +199,8 @@ </p> <p> Updated <a href="sgml-lib/REC-html40-971218/HTML4.decl">the - SGML declaration</a> according to the <a href="http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/html40-updates/REC-html40-19980424-errata.html">HTML + SGML declaration</a> according to the <a href="http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/html40-updates/REC-html40-19980424-errata.html"><acronym + title="HyperText Markup Language">HTML</acronym> 4.0 spec errata</a>. (see <a href="http://dev.w3.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/validator/htdocs/sgml-lib/REC-html40-971218/HTML4.decl?r1=1.1&r2=1.2">the changes</a>). </p> @@ -138,8 +208,9 @@ <dt><a name="1998.08.26">August 26, 1998</a>:</dt> <dd> <p> - Put a <a href="/sgml-lib.tar.gz">tarred and gzipped version</a> of - <a href="/sgml-lib/">the SGML library files</a> (DTDs etc.) on the + Put a <a href="sgml-lib.tar.gz">tarred and gzipped version</a> of + <a href="sgml-lib/">the SGML library files</a> (<acronym + title="Document Type Definitions">DTDs</acronym> etc.) on the Web. </p> </dd> @@ -147,10 +218,10 @@ <dd> <p>Posted some new documents on the Web:</p> <ul> - <li><a href="/source/">information on the source code</a></li> - <li><a href="/todo.html">the to-do list for the service</a></li> + <li><a href="source/">information on the source code</a></li> + <li><a href="todo.html">the to-do list for the service</a></li> <li> - <a href="/feedback.html">a page explaining how to give feedback</a> + <a href="feedback.html">a page explaining how to give feedback</a> (including information on the new <a href="http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-validator/">www-validator mailing list</a>) </li> @@ -159,8 +230,10 @@ <dt><a name="1998.07.24">July 24, 1998</a>:</dt> <dd> <p> - Made the <a href="/source/">source code</a> available via - <a href="http://dev.w3.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb">W3C's public CVS tree</a>. + Made the <a href="source/">source code</a> available via + <a href="http://dev.w3.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb"><acronym + title="World Wide Web Consortium">W3C</acronym>'s public <acronym + title="Concurrent Versions System">CVS</acronym> tree</a>. </p> <p> Upgraded the HTTP server to <a href="http://www.apache.org/">Apache @@ -186,11 +259,13 @@ <dt><a name="1997.12.18">December 18, 1997</a>:</dt> <dd> <p> - Updated HTML 4.0 materials to match the - <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/">HTML 4.0 Recommendation</a>. + Updated <acronym title="HyperText Markup Language">HTML</acronym> 4.0 + materials to match the + <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/"><acronym + title="HyperText Markup Language">HTML</acronym> 4.0 Recommendation</a>. </p> </dd> </dl> -<!--#include virtual="/footer.html" --> +<!--#include virtual="footer.html" --> </body> </html> |