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- Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2009 15:21:30 +0000
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Update of /sources/public/validator/htdocs In directory hutz:/tmp/cvs-serv8790 Modified Files: whatsnew.html about.html Log Message: preparing changelog for 0.8.5 release Index: whatsnew.html =================================================================== RCS file: /sources/public/validator/htdocs/whatsnew.html,v retrieving revision 1.78 retrieving revision 1.79 diff -u -d -r1.78 -r1.79 --- whatsnew.html 18 Nov 2008 21:15:48 -0000 1.78 +++ whatsnew.html 13 Mar 2009 15:21:28 -0000 1.79 @@ -17,8 +17,37 @@ <p> News for this service are also available as <a href="whatsnew.atom">an ATOM feed</a>. </p> + <p>Want to know not just the <em>latest news</em> but see the future and read about what's next? + Check out the <a href="todo.html">development Roadmap and TODO list</a>.</p> </div> <dl id="news"> + <dt id="t2009-03-XX">2009-03-XX — 0.8.5 release:</dt> + <dd> + <p>The 0.8.5 release of the markup validator is a feature and bugfix release. Changes include:</p> + <ul> + <li>UI fix: many of our users were confused by the behaviour of the "More options" arrow. + A small UI change should make the user experience less confusing.</li> + <li>New Feature: fuzzy matching used to suggest corrected markup. Analysis of many invalid + pages shows that the most common error comes from invalid (typo or non standard) elements and attributes used. + The <a href="http://www.w3.org/blog/systeam/2009/02/16/validator_fuzzy_match" + title="blog post on the validator's fuzzy matching">new feature</a> will help by suggesting possible (valid) + alternatives.</li> + <li>Bug Fix: <a href="http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=6524">issues with SVG</a> were creating very + large log output when validating SVG documents. The validator code has been amended to limit this log flood.</li> + <li>Bug Fix: the HTML5 validator integration broke some of the validator's “document type override” functionalities + in version 0.8.4. This is fixed in 0.8.5.</li> + <li>New: the validator icon code, which one can add to web pages, now <a href="http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=65252">includes XHTML+RDFa</a> when applicable</li> + <li>Bug Fix / New: implementing <a href="http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=6329">XML::LibXML Structured Errors</a>. The validator uses libxml2 and the XML::LibXML for well-formedness check. + Recent versions of the perl library had bugs that made in backard-incompatible, causing the validator to not output all + well-formedness errors reliably. Some code was added to the validator to work with all future versions of that library, but + we recommend not using XML::LibXML between versions 1.67 and 1.69 inclusive (<a href="http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=6329#c15">see how</a>).</li> + <li>UI Fix: accessibility improvements for screen readers.</li> + <li>Usability: the way in which the validator has to handle + <a href="http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=6259">direct input and character encodings</a> + has long been confusing to many. Improvements have been made that explain in clearer ways what the validator does.</li> + <li>New: the validator now recommends to declare character encoding in the document itself, especially if there is a chance that the document will be read from or saved to disk, CD, etc - in accordance with <a href="http://www.w3.org/International/tutorials/tutorial-char-enc/#Slide0250">internationalization recommendations</a>.</li> + </ul> + </dd> <dt id="t2008-11-20">2008-11-20 — 0.8.4 release:</dt> <dd> <p>0.8.4 may sound like a very minor step from the <a href="t2008-08-08">version 0.8.3 released in August</a>, but this new release of the W3C Markup Validator brings some very important change: in addition to checking documents against etablished standards such as HTML 4.01 and XHTML 1.0, the validator can now check documents for conformance to <a href="http://www.w3.org/html/" title="Home page of the HTML Working Group at W3C">HTML5</a>, thanks to the integration with the <a href="http://about.validator.nu/">Validator.nu</a> html5 engine.</p> Index: about.html =================================================================== RCS file: /sources/public/validator/htdocs/about.html,v retrieving revision 1.42 retrieving revision 1.43 diff -u -d -r1.42 -r1.43 --- about.html 1 Jan 2009 21:26:15 -0000 1.42 +++ about.html 13 Mar 2009 15:21:28 -0000 1.43 @@ -195,6 +195,7 @@ Moto Ishizawa, <a href="http://www.webthing.com/~nick/">Nick Kew</a>, <a href="http://www.w3.org/People/olivier/">Olivier Thereaux</a>, + Patrick H. Lauke, Roland W. Crowl, Scott Bigham, <a href="http://sierkbornemann.de/">Sierk Bornemann</a>,
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