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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
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<head>
  <title>W3C HTML Validation Service: What's New</title>
  <link rev="made" href="mailto:gerald@w3.org">
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    W3C HTML Validation Service, What's New">
  <meta name="description" content="What's New with W3C's Validation Service.">
  <meta name="revision"
    content="$Id: whatsnew.html,v 1.14 2000-01-26 16:02:52 gerald Exp $">
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<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000" link="#0000ee" vlink="#551a8b">

<p>
  <a href="http://www.w3.org/"><img
     src="http://www.w3.org/Icons/WWW/w3c_home" height=48 border=0
     alt="W3C"></a>
</p>

<h1>W3C HTML Validation Service: What's New</h1>

<p>
  This page lists recent changes to <a href="/">the W3C HTML
  Validation Service</a>.
</p>

<p>
  For minor changes and bug fixes that aren't listed on this page, see <a
  href="http://dev.w3.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/validator/httpd/cgi-bin/check">the
  CVS log</a>.
</p>

<dl>

<dt><a name="2000-01-26"><strong>January 26, 2000</strong></a>:
<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>

<dt><a name="1999.08.24"><strong>August 24, 1999</strong></a>:
<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>

<dt><a name="1999.04.08"><strong>April 8, 1999</strong></a>:
<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>

<p>
<dt><a name="1999.03.04"><strong>March 4, 1999</strong></a>:
<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>

<p>
<dt><a name="1999.02.25"><strong>February 25, 1999</strong></a>:
<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>
<dt><a name="1998.08.26"><strong>August 26, 1998</strong></a>:
<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>

<p>
<dt><a name="1998.08.05"><strong>August 5, 1998</strong></a>:
<dd>
  <p>
    Posted some new documents on the Web:
  </p>
  
  <ul>
    <li> <a href="/source/">information on the source code</a>,
    <li> <a href="/todo.html">the to-do list for the service</a>,
    <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>),
  </ul>

<p>
<dt><a name="1998.07.24"><strong>July 24, 1998</strong></a>:
<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>

<p>
<dt><a name="1998.06.19"><strong>June 19, 1998</strong></a>:
<dd>
  <p>
    Added a page about <a href="about.html">the hardware/network
    behind this service</a>.
  </p>

<p>
<dt><a name="1998.04.20"><strong>April 20, 1998</strong></a>:
<dd>
  <p>
    Added support for a parameter to check the referring Web page for mistakes.
  </p>

  <p>
    To use it, just link to the following URI when linking to the service:
  </p>

  <blockquote><code>
    <a href="http://validator.w3.org/check/referer">http://validator.w3.org/check/referer</a>
  </code></blockquote>

  <p>
    (you can try the link above to see how it works.)
  </p>

<p>
<dt><a name="1997.12.18"><strong>December 18, 1997</strong></a>:
<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>

</dl>

<hr>

<address>
  <a href="http://validator.w3.org/check/referer"><img
     src="http://validator.w3.org/images/vh40.gif" height=31 width=88
     align=right border=0 alt="Valid HTML 4.0!"></a>
  <a href="/feedback.html">Gerald Oskoboiny</A><br>
     $Date: 2000-01-26 16:02:52 $
</address>

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