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    <div class="intro">
      <p>
        This page lists recent changes to <a href="/">the W3C HTML 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>.
      </p>
    </div>
    <dl>
      <dt><a name="2001-09-13"><strong>September 13, 2001</strong></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>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>
        </ul>
      </dd>
      <dt><a name="2001-06-22"><strong>June 22, 2001</strong></a>:</dt>
      <dd>
        <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>Generally improved handling of Character Encodings.</li>
          <li>Documentation donated by Scott Bigham (Thanks Scott!).</li>
        </ul>
      </dd>
      <dt><a name="2000-10-18"><strong>October 18, 2000</strong></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>.
        </p>
      </dd>
      <dt><a name="2000-06-30"><strong>June 30, 2000</strong></a>:</dt>
      <dd>
        <p>
          The service now checks XHTML documents for validity as well as
          XML well-formedness.
        </p>
      </dd>
      <dt><a name="2000-04-28"><strong>April 28, 2000</strong></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
          <a href="about.html">another page</a>.
        </p>
      </dd>
      <dt><a name="2000-01-26"><strong>January 26, 2000</strong></a>:</dt>
      <dd>
        <p>
          Updated <a href="sgml-lib/">the DTDs</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>.
        </p>
      </dd>
      <dt><a name="1999.08.24"><strong>August 24, 1999</strong></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>.
        </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>.
        </p>
      </dd>
      <dt><a name="1999.04.08"><strong>April 8, 1999</strong></a>:</dt>
      <dd>
        <p>
          Added username/password proxying for validation of documents protected
          by HTTP Basic Authentication, thanks to patches from
          <a href="http://www.w3.org/People/Renaud/">Renaud Bruyeron</a>. (see
          <a href="http://dev.w3.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/validator/httpd/cgi-bin/check.diff?r1=text&amp;tr1=1.16&amp;r2=text&amp;tr2=1.18&amp;f=h">the
          changes</a>)
        </p>
        <p>
          This revision also includes patches to use the Perl5 version
          of libwww-perl, <a href="http://www.linpro.no/lwp/">LWP</a>.
        </p>
      </dd>
      <dt><a name="1999.03.04"><strong>March 4, 1999</strong></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
          19990304 working draft</a>. (see <a href="http://dev.w3.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/validator/httpd/cgi-bin/check.diff?r1=text&amp;tr1=1.13&amp;r2=text&amp;tr2=1.16&amp;f=h">the changes</a>)
        </p>
      </dd>
      <dt><a name="1999.02.25"><strong>February 25, 1999</strong></a>:</dt>
      <dd>
        <p>
          Added support for ISO-2022-JP and Shift_JIS 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
          D&uuml;rst</a> for their patches and advice.
        </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
          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&amp;r2=1.2">the
          changes</a>).
        </p>
      </dd>
      <dt><a name="1998.08.26"><strong>August 26, 1998</strong></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
          Web.
        </p>
      </dd>
      <dt><a name="1998.08.05"><strong>August 5, 1998</strong></a>:</dt>
      <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="/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>
        </ul>
      </dd>
      <dt><a name="1998.07.24"><strong>July 24, 1998</strong></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>.
        </p>
        <p>
          Upgraded the HTTP server to <a href="http://www.apache.org/">Apache
          1.3.1.</a>
        </p>
      </dd>
      <dt><a name="1998.06.19"><strong>June 19, 1998</strong></a>:</dt>
      <dd>
        <p>
          Added a page about <a href="about.html">the hardware/network
          behind this service</a>.
        </p>
      </dd>
      <dt><a name="1998.04.20"><strong>April 20, 1998</strong></a>:</dt>
      <dd>
        <p>
          Added support for a parameter to check the referring Web page for
          mistakes. To use it, just link to the following URI when linking to
          the service &lt;URL:<code><a href="http://validator.w3.org/check/referer">http://validator.w3.org/check/referer</a></code>&gt;
          (you can try the link to see how it works.)
        </p>
      </dd>
      <dt><a name="1997.12.18"><strong>December 18, 1997</strong></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>.
        </p>
      </dd>
    </dl>
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