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<p>
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
<acronym title="Concurrent Versions System">CVS</acronym> log</a>.
</p>
</div>
<dl>
<dt><a name="2002-10-22">October 22, 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"><a
href="http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG/">SVG</a></acronym> and
<code>image/svg+xml</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>
<li>Finished redesign and use consistent style for all pages..</li>
<li>Added Tip-of-the-Day.</li>
</ul>
</dd>
<dt><a name="2001-09-24">September 24, 2001</a>:</dt>
<dd>
<ul>
<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 <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>
</ul>
</dd>
<dt><a name="2001-06-22">June 22, 2001</a>:</dt>
<dd>
<ul>
<li>Various bug fixes; 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. <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>
</dd>
<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"><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 <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.
</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">January 26, 2000</a>:</dt>
<dd>
<p>
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/"><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 <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 <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>
<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&tr1=1.16&r2=text&tr2=1.18&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">March 4, 1999</a>:</dt>
<dd>
<p>
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 <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
Dürst</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"><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>
</dd>
<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> (<acronym
title="Document Type Definitions">DTDs</acronym> etc.) on the
Web.
</p>
</dd>
<dt><a name="1998.08.05">August 5, 1998</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">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"><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
1.3.1.</a>
</p>
</dd>
<dt><a name="1998.06.19">June 19, 1998</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">April 20, 1998</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 <URL:<code><a href="http://validator.w3.org/check/referer">http://validator.w3.org/check/referer</a></code>>
(you can try the link to see how it works.)
</p>
</dd>
<dt><a name="1997.12.18">December 18, 1997</a>:</dt>
<dd>
<p>
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>
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