| Sep/2003 |
Totally revamped the common HTML attributes section |
| Sep/2003 |
Updated Opera new support information for Opera 7.2 |
| Sep/2003 |
Updated browser histories to reflect the huge amount of churn that happened with IE and Mozilla this summer |
| Mar-May/2003 |
Added more discussion lists/areas to the list, made the stylesheet switcher work in Mozilla too. |
| Mar-May/2003 |
Total revamp of the main indexes, including a site search (using Google),
new icon bar to make some features more prominent, and in informational sidebar |
| Mar-May/2003 |
Clarifying and fixing many errors sent in by readers |
| Mar-May/2003 |
Total revamp of the Ruby pages, adding several new pages |
| Mar-May/2003 |
Added HTML support information for XHTML 1.0 and 1.1. |
| Mar-May/2003 |
Total revamp of the !DOCTYPE page, including much information on !DOCTYPE switching |
| Mar-May/2003 |
Researched CSS support in Netscape 7/Opera 7.x |
| Mar-May/2003 |
Totally updated HTML/CSS spec histories to current day |
| Mar-May/2003 |
Totally updated browser histories to current versions |
| Mar-May/2003 |
Researched and documented all new HTML support in Netscape 7/Opera 7.x |
| **** |
------------------------- Begin 2003 ------------------------- |
| 3/8-4/12/2002 |
Removed NetMind service because they moved to a pay
model. Added a "donate to site" page. |
| 3/8-4/12/2002 |
Totally re-vamped the generic attributes pages, based on
recent research. The old version had a TON of errors due to me not being
able to check most of the claims from elsewhere myself. I still have to
trust some outside sources, but... (I think it's progress =)) |
| 3/8-4/12/2002 |
Updated INDEX DOT HTML info to reflect current released browsers |
| 3/8-4/12/2002 |
Huge code optimization effort, stripping trailing spaces, converting
tabs to spaces (due to an ooolld editor setting mistake I had made before),
simplified often used class names and deleted a common attribute used in a lot of
places. Overall, it saved about 1.5 megabytes. Even though this update
ADDED about the same in new content information, the net size of the
site is the same. |
| 3/8-4/12/2002 |
Updated various issues from about 200 emails that had been
piling up over the past year. |
| 2-3/2002 |
Took down the free downloadable compressed version of the site.
It was an old version, and I couldn't stand having THAT be the
version that some were working from. I'm not working right now,
so I can use the coin anyway please! 8-} |
| 2-3/2002 |
MAJOR update for CSS section for all browsers. Also added
Mozilla and Opera new proprietary CSS. |
| 2-3/2002 |
Tweaked the browser history pages to reflect platform changes and
some evolutionary notes. |
| 2-3/2002 |
Added sub-pages for XHTML 1.0 and XHTML 1.1, revamped the CSS3 page. |
| 2-3/2002 |
Updated HTML character entities up to Opera 6 support |
| 01-02/15 |
Updated the browser histories up to IE6, NS6.2 and Opera 6 |
| 01-02/15 |
Fixed the problems with the 2 bad scrollbar prop names that MS
messed up. Added page for scrollbar-track-color. |
| 01-02/15 |
Added info to LINK tag page about the IE favorite icon stuff |
| 01-02/15 |
Checked and fixed all links |
| 01-02/15 |
Created stubs for XHTML 1 and XHTML 1.1 pages |
| 01-02/15 |
Added ALT attribute to the example since it is a required attribute |
| 01-02/15 |
Added IE and Opera notes about CSS 'font-variant' property |
| 01-02/15 |
Added end-support in opera for WBR element |
| 01-02/15 |
Fixed DTD support info for target attrib in A and BASE tag pages |
| 01-02/15 |
Work begins again on the site, especially research on CSS
rendering in the current browsers. That is ongoing and will be released next. |
| **** |
------------------------- Begin 2002 ------------------------- |
| March |
Made some minor changes to all HTML tag pages, including a new
quicklook stats area, and added the HTML 2.0 SDA* attributes. Due to
many unforeseen circumstances and computing problems, they were never uploaded. |
| **** |
------------------------- Begin 2001 ------------------------- |
| 8/1-11/15 |
Whoa. Where to begin! I have surveyed the HTML capabilities
of Opera 4, IE 5.5, and Netscape 6, and documented them here. There are
SO many changes that I can't mention them all. Also added some legacy
info from Netscape that I stumbled on. Also cleaned up a few inaccuracies
in HTML 2 and 3 reporting. Also added several new topics to the HTML FAQ
area. Also documented character entity handling in those browsers. For
HTML, still need to cover: common attributes, browser peculiarities,
and Netscape 6 final release. |
| 8/13 |
Added the height/width/align attributes to all block level
elements in Opera 4.0 |
| 8/12 |
The "current standards support" new headings link to
html/tagpages/standards.htm - which details what all the notations
mean and what the differences are between the different DTDs in
HTML 4.x |
| 8/12 |
Added "current standards support" heading to *ALL* HTML
elements/attributes on all tag pages. |
| 8/10 |
Updated all unicode entity pages to reflect Netscape 6 support |
| 8/2 |
Updated all unicode entity pages to reflect Opera4 support |
| 8/2 |
Fixed all headings on the unicode entity pages to reflect
that code positions are unicode, not iso-8859-1 |
| 07/10 |
Added browser peculiar for bgcolor/table/radio/checkbox bug
in Netscape 4, and similar one in Opera 2.1 to:
html/tagpages/: inputradio.htm, inputcheck.htm, table.htm and
thtd.htm |
| 07/09 |
css/properties/position/zindex.htm:browser peculiar: NS:
added note about negative z-indices failing in NS |
| 07/09 |
html/tagpages/t/table.htm page: Added a browser peculiar
about table background repeating in nested tables and a fix
for the problem, both sent by a reader. |
| 07/09 |
Added a browser peculiar about table content selection in
Netscape to the html/tagpages/t/table.htm page |
| 07/09 |
fixed a small oopsie typo on html/entities/224-255.htm for
position 245 |
| 07/09 |
changed all history/browsersx.htm pages to reflect Netscape 6
PR1 and the Opera 4.0 cycle, and now the IE5.5 final release.
Also changed the history/netscape.htm and opera.htm pages. |
| 07/09 |
html/tagpages/f/frameset.htm: framespacing attribute desc:
erroneous before in that it was a dupe of the frameborder
attribute desc. It has its own (correct) desc now. |
| 07/09 |
html/tagpages/i/image.htm: loop attribute value section:
fixed a typo in phrasing (had "sound" instead of "video") |
| 07/09 |
Added a new topics page covering URL encoding. added links
and text explain blurbs to this page on html/misc/topics.htm and
htmltopics.htm, as well as to html/tagpages/hyperlinks.htm and
html/tagpages/a/a-hyperlinks.htm. |
| 07/08 |
Totally revamped the html/tagpages/e/embed.htm page and the
e.htm supportkey page. |
| 05/09 |
Added a single, all-in-one alphabetic index to all CSS properties |
| 03/06 |
Added browser peculiar to css/syntax/pseudo/pclassactive and
pclasslink concerning IE 4.5 (Macintosh-only) bug concerning
CSS applied to borders on images embedded in hyperlinks |
| 03/06 |
Added browser peculiar to html/tagpages/f/frame.htm - NS
Macintosh only behavior concerning the SCROLLING attribute |
| 03/05 |
Added the scrollbar (css/properties/scrollbar/) properties and
scrollbar overview page (css/properties/scrollbar.htm) with
helpful images. |
| 02/27 |
Added browser peculiar to A HREF, A NAME, LAYER and ILAYER
tag pages concerning Netscape failing to correctly target a bookmark
when it is inside a LAYER or ILAYER |
| 02/27 |
Added ARCHIVE attribute info to the SCRIPT tag page and
support for it and the ID attribute in Netscape:
html/tagpages/s/script.htm, html/tagpages/attributes/id.htm and
html/supportkey/s.htm |
| 02/26 |
Added browser peculiarity to html/tagpages/b/base.htm
concerning the HREF attribute and non-terminated URLs in Netscape and
Opera |
| 02/26 |
Added browser peculiar to these tagpages regarding use of
character-level formatting applying to form field contents:
INPUT type=button, reset, submit, file, text, password, TEXTAREA
and SELECT elements |
| 02/26 |
Changed the description and values for the AUTOCOMPLETE
attribute on the html/tagpages/f/form.htm, i/inputpassword and
i/inputtext tag pages - the old wording was in error |
| 02/26 |
Added a note to the css/properties/text/texttrans.htm about
the "capitalize" value |
| 02/26 |
Had an error in the attributes listing for the html/tagpages/i/inputfile
page: re-did the descriptions for the NAME and VALUE attributes. |
| 02/26 |
Added two new browser peculiars to end of html/tagpages/h/hr.htm |
| 02/26 |
Totally revamped the css/topics/cascade.htm page |
| 02/17 |
Added new css/topics: media.htm, also added a reference in
css/index4.htm |
| 02/16 |
html/tagpages/a/a-hyperlink and a-bookmark: Added to
tips/tricks section comment regarding TITLE attribute used on
common and specifc/other categories because of historic
support. Also added descriptive comment to the "other" category
for a-bookmark. Re-created/reclassified same attributes in
a-hyperlink and added header comment as well. |
| 02/16 |
Massive updates (added a couple big prose sections) to
html/tagpages/shorthands.htm and updated the short index to
said page in misc/htmltopics.htm |
| 02/13 |
Added browser peculiar to input type=file tag page regarding
Netscape's treatment of the onChange attribute |
| 02/12 |
Added browser peculiar to the LINK page regarding Netscape
ignoring LINKed CSS if the LINK uses an ID attribute. |
| 02/12 |
Tweaked the syntax on html/tagpages/hyperlink.htm to include
possibility of query strings |
| 02/12 |
Added tip/trick to html/tagpages/a/a-hyperlink and a-bookmark
regarding the possibility of using the A element without a
HREF or NAME attribute |
| 02/12 |
Added browser peculiar blurb to html/tagpages/f/frameset.htm
about IE needing a positive FRAMESPACING value in order to
have resizability |
| 02/12 |
html/tagpages/t/table.htm browser peculiar: added note about
nested table use of the HEIGHT attribute not working for
percentages in NS and Opera |
| 02/12 |
Added a link/reference to the html/topics/frameborders.htm page
in the browser peculiars for html/tagpages/f/frame.htm and
frameset.htm |
| 02/12 |
Added blurb to html/topics/frameborders.htm about Netscape
specific method for eliminating the sub-document spacing
(the MARGINHEIGHT and MARGINWIDTH attributes) between frames in
the "cross-compatibility tips" section |
| 02/07 |
html/tagpages/m/metauses.htm - expires example had left bracket
out of place |
| 02/05 |
Added CR/LF behavior bullet to browser peculiars in
html/tagpages/a/area.htm, applet.htm, i/image.htm and inputimage.htm |
| 02/05 |
Added Netscape 4 support for input type=image ALT attribute to
tag page and support key |
| 02/05 |
last sentence of para 2 in "what is it?" for html/tagpages/target.htm:
if frame name does not already exist, it loads in a new window |
| 02/05 |
Added browser peculiar about Netscape/opera not allowing
underscore chars for CLASS and ID attributes to
html/tagpages/attributes/core.htm, css/syntax/generalbugs.htm and
css/syntax/selectors/spechtml.htm |
| 02/06 |
Fixed an annoying typo when describing the CLEAR attribute
LEFT value: it goes down until the LEFT side is clear, not the
right...fixed on tagpages: OL, UL, DIV, DL, DTDD, Heading, LI and P |
| 02/05 |
Added a privacy statement concerning info collected when
purchasing a download license. Linked now from download/login.htm
and download/download.htm |
| 02/05 |
User caught a spelling error: "descriptors" on
css/properties/font.htm |
| 02/04 |
Fixed logical typo in html/tagpages/c/col.htm: what is it,
last sentence. (changed row to column) |
| 02/04 |
Added browser peculiar about BG image rendering around input
type="checkbox" and "radio" in Netscape 2.0+ |
| 02/04 |
Added Netscape note to CSS font, font-size and font-family
property pages indicating font-size and font-family must both
be specified to work correctly. |
| 02/03 |
Fixed spelling error "fanatsy" in css/examples/inline.htm |
| 02/01 |
Fixed notation about the 'font' property UI names suuport
in IE4+ |
| 02/01 |
Ran a link checker on the site |
| 1/29 |
misc/whichtags: usable on all browsers: tweaked wording of 2nd para
things to keep in mind: tweaked wording of first para. |
| 1/29 |
misc/htmltopics: deleted second intro sentence |
| 1/29 |
misc/sitewhy: html history: changed time covered from 3 to 5 years |
| 1/29 |
misc/htmlcaveats: validation: changed tense of when validated to HTML 3.2 |
| 1/29 |
misc/whatfor.htm: deleted last para on "design strategy". Tweaked
wordings on "why were these browsers chosen" pieces for IE, Netscape
and Opera |
| 1/29 |
Changed the content model for the MAP element because of changes
introduced in HTML 4.01. Also added a tip/trick bullet to discuss
this change |
| 1/29 |
added text-justify CSS property to the site under INTERNATIONAL category:
support key and property pag |
| 1/29 |
added word-wrap CSS property to the site under TEXT category:
support key and property page |
| 1/29 |
added word-wrap CSS property to the site: support
key and property page |
| 1/29 |
added word-wrap CSS property to the site under TEXT category:
support key and property page |
| 1/29 |
added word-wrap CSS property to the site: support
key and property page |
| 1/29 |
html/tagpages/u/ul.htm and o/ol.htm: Changed first browser peculiar
to include Opera, and re-worked wording of first tip/trick |
| 1/29 |
added text-underline-position CSS property to the site under TEXT category:
support key and property page |
| 1/29 |
tagpages/topics/indent.htm: ul/ol bad syntax: expanded the "cons" bullet.
tables: pro: added support bullet. con: teaked wording on historic table support.
CSS: Added Opera to support mention |
| 1/29 |
history/netscape.htm: Added note about Mozilla M13 Alpha-quality milestone hit |
| 1/29 |
html/tagpages/text.htm: Unicode solution: last para - tweaked wording a little
"HTML 4.0 - unicode instead of..." - tweaked the first sentence a little |
| 1/28 |
Updated history/html.htm timeline regarding xhtml becoming PR and Rec |
| 1/28 |
Updated history/xhtml.htm timeline regarding xhtml becoming PR and Rec |
| 1/26 |
Added browser peculiar info for css/properties/position/zindex.htm:
regarding added support for z-indexing of frame/iframe in IE 5.5+ |
| 1/26 |
Added browser peculiar info for css/properties/colorbg/bgcolor.htm and bg.htm:
regarding added support for transparency of frame/iframe in IE 5.5+ |
| 1/26 |
Added HTML support info for FORM ACCEPT attribute to
supportkey and tagpage. Also added DTD note to tips/tricks on
tagpages/f/form.htm concerning addition in HTML 4.01 |
| 1/26 |
Added /html/tagpages/attributes/core.htm tips/tricks section |
| 1/26 |
Added HTML support info for INPUT TYPE=IMAGE...ISMAP attribute to
supportkey and tagpage. Also added DTD note to tips/tricks on
tagpages/i/inputimage.htm concerning addition in HTML 4.01 |
| 1/26 |
Added HTML support info for FORM NAME attribute to supportkey and tagpage.
Also added DTD note to tips/tricks on tagpages/f/form.htm concerning
addition in HTML 4.01 |
| 1/26 |
Added HTML support info for IMAGE NAME attribute to supportkey and tagpage.
Also added DTD note to tips/tricks on tagpages/i/image.htm concerning
addition in HTML 4.01 |
| 1/25 |
tagpages/f/frame.htm and frameset.htm: added 2 bullets to the end of the
tips/tricks concerning IE 5.5 Beta 1 improvements to frames |
| 1/25 |
changed copyright dates in misc/copyright.htm to be 2000 |
| 1/25 |
css/supportkey/border.htm: added border-style-* property support
for 'dotted' and 'dashed' |
| 1/25 |
Added IE5.5B1 for support of dotted and dashed to css/properties/border/
bstyle.htm, btstyle, brstyle, bbstyle and blstyle.htm |
| 1/25 |
HTML40.htm: added 2 new history bullet points, deleted paragraph
about features still to be added and added a new section: "small steps"
ripped apart the "why its important" block |
| 1/24 |
Totally re-vamped the history/netscape.htm page prose about the browser's history.
Also added a couple historical tidbits on the timeline. |
| 1/24 |
Totally re-vamped the history/ie.htm page prose about the browser's history. |
| 1/24 |
Added Opera browser peculiar bullet to HR, and TD/TH page regarding
HR default alignment |
| 1/23 |
tagpages/e/embed.htm: removed last tip/trick: Netscape 3, 4, IE 4, 5
all support percentages for height/width |
| 1/23 |
tagpages/multimedia.htm: justify: Changed tense of new capabilities
extension. Also changed the first para of "ensuring your content
is conveyed as intended" - it needed a LOT of help... It may still
need some, but this is a bit of an improvement. Delivering Multimedia...:
CSIM: Changed tense - CSIM is not new any more. |
| 1/23 |
tagpages/positioning.htm: Support: added note that Netscape 5 won't
be supporting this syntax. |
| 1/23 |
tagpages/embed.htm - uses/java: changed the parenthetical. Uses/browser
plugins: Added blurb about NOEMBED |
| 1/23 |
tagpages/character.htm: phys vs. virt: phys: Deleted note about
ILAYER (it was moved to another element category) |
| 1/23 |
frame.htm: browser peculiar: buttlet about no SRC attribute - fixed
a typo re: "Internet Exploer" |
| 1/23 |
Font.htm: tips/tricks: Color: 1st bullet, deleted last sentence. |
| 1/23 |
Fieldset.htm: what is it 2nd para wording changed to be clearer. |
| 1/23 |
Ilayer.htm: The last tip/trick was altered to reflect new data. |
| 1/23 |
Iframe.htm: what is it changed (it is not just IE-specific any more.) |
| 1/23 |
html/tagpages/i/image.htm: It looks like the SUPPRESS attribute
did not have an adequate description. Changed. |
| 1/23 |
html/tagpages/i/image.htm: tips/tricks: point regarding using
usemap with ismap because ismap has wider support - changed to reflect
current views and long historical CSIM support. |
| 1/23 |
html/tagpages/i/inputbutton.htm: Altered first browser peculiar
to reflect currrent views. |
| 1/16 |
Updated misc/versions.htm |
| 1/16 |
Updated each of the individual browser pages to reflect new releases |
| 1/16 |
Updated browsers1-6 for new browser releases |
| 1/16 |
fixed an internal link error in history/browsers.htm |
| 1/16 |
tagpages/t/textarea, second browser peculiar: changed tense |
| 1/15 |
tagpages/c/conditblock tagpage: for the downlevel hidden block,
corrected the syntax listing - there was a fatal error listed there. |
| 1/15 |
nolayer tag page: first tips and tricks altered for tense and slight wording. |
| 1/15 |
Layer tag page: The last tip/trick was altered to reflect new data. Also
changed some of the wording in the first/second paras of the "what is it"
section. |
| 1/15 |
link tag page: chaged wording of last tip/trick |
| 1/15 |
Param tag page: altered the tense of wording in the browser peculiarity. |
| 1/15 |
Div tag page: Deleted the second, short paragraph which applied only
during a short period in the approval process for HTML 4.0 |
| 1/14 |
Meta tag page and support key: M - Deleted the Meta/URL attribute (what was
I smoking? |
| 1/14 |
Multicol tag page: changed the tense and wording of the first tip/trick |
| 1/14 |
Big tag page - deleted final browser peculiar regarding mixing big/small.
I just tested it in Netscape 2, 3 4.01 and 4.7, Opera 3.6 and IE 4/5 and this
just didn't happen. Also tweaked the tag description |
| 1/14 |
Body tagpage: forgot the closing / on the TITLE tag in the example |
| 1/14 |
OPTION tag page: tweaked the what is it section so that it mentioned
OPTGROUP as well |
| 1/14 |
Select tag page: browser peculiar was embarrassingly out of sync with
with what the content model says: the only content of SELECT is OPTION
*and* OPTGROUP |
| 1/14 |
Script tag page: Tweaked second para of what is it. |
| 1/14 |
Span tag page - Deleted the second, short paragraph which applied only
during a short period in the approval process for HTML 4.0 |
| 1/14 |
Spacer tag page - Tweaked first browser peculiar. |
| 1/14 |
Small tag page - deleted final browser peculiar regarding mixing big/small.
I just tested it in Netscape 2, 3 4.01 and 4.7, Opera 3.6 and IE 4/5 and this
just didn't happen. Also tweaked the tag description |
| 1/14 |
Strike tag page - altered tense of first tip/trick regarding HTML 4 |
| 1/14 |
Style tag page - changed description |
| 1/14 |
Altered the first TR tag page tips and tricks bullet. |
| 1/14 |
Added the qualifying final sentence to the XML tag page |
| 1/14 |
Added the word "and" to the first tips and trips for the XMP tag page |
| 1/8 |
html/tagpages/applet.htm - added the word "is" to attributes/archive/description
for better wording flow. Also tweaked desc of the Name attribute. Also tweaked the
first browser peculiarity for tense changes. |
| 1/8 |
html/tagpages/area.htm - changed several small items here |
| 1/8 |
Tweaked several parts of html/topics/uastring-navobj.htm |
| 1/8 |
Revamped first para of html/topics/naturalsize.htm |
| 1/8 |
Revamped and broke up "A New RFC Proposal: Redefining the
'Mailto:' URL Scheme" section of html/topics/mailto.htm |
| 1/8 |
Altered wording of suggested methods for hiding source code 1st and 3rd bullets |
| 1/8 |
Altered example 2 in html/topics/breakframes.htm |
| **** |
------------------------- Begin 2000 ------------------------- |
| 12/22 |
Added a link to NetMind reminder service |
| 12/22 |
Re-did the site logos |
| 12/22 |
Changed the site stylesheet to the new "modern" CSS.
I expect to get a lot of comments - positive AND negative on
this. I have put demos and samples up in the discussion
forum asking for input to no avail in the past...
so here it is. =) |
| Nov |
Added an IE4+ specific app to allow the site style
sheet to be swapped between 3 alternatives |
| Oct/Nov |
Made the site downloadable again, this time at a charge -
I need to see some revenue from the site else it is getting
harder to justify the time I spend on it. |
| 11/8 |
Added all-in-one index to HTML tag index - this was
a long-time request |
| October |
Added new classes: Tag index letter, and examples to
all pages, added rule in stylesheet |
| October |
Added simple hex calculator. This will be integrated
into new color chooser soon |
| October |
Added basic color swatch picker for safety palette |
| October |
Added rollovers to index pages plus/minus images |
| 8/25 |
Added link to event handlers overview in misc/htmltopics.htm |
| 8/4 |
Corrected some broken/unbalanced hyperlinks in the
browserX.htm pages |
| 8/4 |
Tweaked Opera page platform support to include Beos |
| 8/4 |
deleted dead/redundant history2/3/4.htm from history directory |
| 8/4 |
Changed 'Tag History' menu references to "HTML Support History" |
| 8/4 |
Changed browsersX.htm to fix bug in IE5 final release date |
| 8/4 |
Changed release history of opera and netscape |
| 8/2 |
new links added: quadzilla, opera software, license.htm,
div.htm, style.htm, core.htm, head.htm, multimedia.htm, text.htm |
| 8/2 |
Changed all HTML index occurrences of "Common
Authoring Questions" to "Authoring FAQs" |
| 8/1 |
Re-arranged the bottom halves of the HTML and CSS
main menus on all index pages |
| 8/1 |
Changed LINK and STYLE tag pages browser peculiars to
add note about only allowing one style sheet per page |
| 8/1 |
Added browser peculiar regarding cutout AREA to AREA tag page |
| 8/1 |
Changed browser peculiar about USEMAP attribute
support for external ID in map and image tag pages. |
| 8/1 |
Added acronym to the shorthands page. |
| 8/1 |
Added browser peculiar about charent case sensitivity
in IE1-3 to charent.htm |
| 8/1 |
Removed TR HEIGHT from supportkey and TR tag page |
| 8/1 |
Added Netscape ID browser peculiarity to a-hyperlink
tag page and attribute/core |
| 8/1 |
deleted second chastisement regarding use of
frames on frameset and frame tag pages |
| 8/1 |
changed SCRIPT SRC support notations on supportkey
and tag page from IE3.01 to IE 3.02 |
| 8/1 |
Fixed ARCHIVE attribute support and detail info
for APPLET tag in supportkey and tag page |
| 7/31 |
Added support info for Opera WRT APPLET tag:
Applet page and support key A |
| 7/31 |
Changed TH/TD element page tips/tricks bullets for
end tags and width/height attribs |
| 7/31 |
Added AUTOCOMPLETE browser peculiar to INPUT TEXT
and PASSWORD pages |
| 7/31 |
Tweaked explanations of top, left, screenX, screenY
on topics/windowopen page |
| 7/31 |
Tweaked a few wordings in hr element page on
suggestion from reader |
| 7/31 |
Corrected incorrect documentation note regarding
underscore chars in frame target page |
| 7/31 |
Added browser peculiarity to HR element regarding
the NOSHADE attribute in Netscape |
| 7/31 |
Added browser peculiarity to TABLE and TH/TD tagpages
about Netscape/IE table rendering time differences. |
| 7/31 |
Changed IMG ALT attribute to be REQUIRED, changed
first tips&tricks to new text about ALT attribute. |
| 7/31 |
Added UTF-8 META tag to all unicode character entity
pages in html/tagpages/entities dir |
| 7/31 |
Added FONT/TABLE cell inheritance interaction item
in Browser Peculiarities to FONT, TABLE and TH/TD element pages. |
| 7/30 |
Added IMG SUPPRESS attribute info to supportkey and
IMG tag page. Also changed item in browser peculiarities. |
| 7/21 |
Added bullet/link to CSS hyperlink underline control
FAQ in the html/tagpages/a/a-hyperlink.htm tips&tricks section. |
| 7/20 |
Changed format of LANG attribute construction. |
| 7/13 |
Changed all links to blooberry.com/html to be
blooberry.com/indexdot/html |
| 6/29 |
Moved the break out of frames topic to its own topic
page, changed topic index accordingly |
| 6/29 |
Added the uastring-navobj.htm and windowopen.htm files
to the html/topics dir |
| 6/24 |
Changed title on all html/topics pages to delete all
"misc HTML topics" in page title |
| 6/19 |
Changed spelling error in html/tagpages/f/frameset.htm
near end "exploer" |
| 6/15-6/30 |
Finished the Table and Generated Content CSS property pages. |
| 6/15-6/30 |
Added three new HTML topic pages - breaking out of frames,
creating new javascript windows, and UA strings/browser detection. |
| 5/16-5/23 |
Changed entire site structure from [html] root to [indexdot],
with Index DOT Html residing under /html and Index DOT Css residing
under css/. Thousands of links were affected. I tried to correct all of
them, but I might have missed some. |
| 4/15-5/23 |
Polished Index DOT Css, prelim release, worked out kinks. Initial
phase, almost complete structure and primary content (about 10 more pages
needed to finish.) |
| 4/15 |
Created the X11 color swatch
chooser javascript app (7 pages total.) |
| 4/9 |
Created the xHTML history page |
| 4/8 |
Created the Conditional
Block page |
| 3/1-4/1 |
Cleared up a LOT of issues that people have sent in to me
regarding incorrect or missing information on the site - of note is corrected
information for INPUT TYPE=IMAGE, TABLE BORDERCOLOR support in Netscape
and hopefully putting the TEXTAREA WRAP issue to rest. |
| 3/1-4/1 |
Updated browser history for latest releases. |
| 3/1-4/1 |
Fixed a goof in the character entities section regarding Unicode
fonts - my tests for entity support were not done using Unicode fonts, and I
was missing a LOT of support info for IE4.0. This is fixed. |
| 3/1-4/1 |
Deleted all HTMLAREA and RB element references - this
functionality was pulled from the Internet Explorer 5.0 final release. |
| 3/1-4/1 |
Added/cleaned support information for Internet Explorer 4.0 and 5.0 |
| 3/1-4/1 |
Added support information for Opera 3.5 common attributes:
Class, ID, and Style |
| 3/1-4/1 |
Added support information for Opera 3.5: KBD, APPLET, INPUT TYPE=FILE
support. |
| **** |
------------------------- Begin 1999 ------------------------- |
| 10/28-11/7 |
Added new element and support information pages for
HTMLAREA, RUBY, RB,
RT and
XML elements |
| 10/01-10/28 |
Finally cleared up the TEXTAREA
WRAP issue. |
| 10/01-10/28 |
Created support grid pages for all known event handlers (58 handlers) |
| 10/01-10/28 |
Created an event handler
overview page. |
| 10/01-10/28 |
Updated and revamped the SCRIPT tag and overview page |
| 10/01 |
Added support key pages for the common attributes
(lang, dir, datasrc, datafld, dataformatas, class, id, style, title) |
| 10/01 |
Added two new topics pages -
'Mailto:' URLs and
Hiding Source Code |
| 9/02 |
Added support and historical information for Opera |
| 8/12 |
Updated the site for final HTML 4.0 information |
| 7/29 |
Added a discussion forum. |
| **** |
------------------------- Begin 1998 ------------------------- |
| 11/22 |
Added the Obsolete and Positioning element categories
to the tag tree. Also worked on the positioning element tag pages too. |
| 11/16 |
Readied the site for first public release (whats new,
archive dates, publish dates, and download version statistics. |
| 11/16 |
Spell checked and validated all Tagpages directory
files. Ugh. It takes tooo long to do that. 8-} |
| 11/3-11-16 |
Added Site notation and misc authoring pages. Added more
hyperlinks to relevant sites. Totally re-did !Doctype page. Also completed
Shorthand notation parent/content model pages. |
| 11/3 |
I just discovered that a
Netscape
reference page that I have always thought to be true was slightly
misleading. Many Netscape 1.1 features were actually supported in 1.0
as well (extensions to HR, IMG, UL/OL, and CENTER and FONT, etc...) Oops.
Embarassing, but fixed. 8-} |
| 10/15-10/30 |
Finalizing a lot of support information from HTML 4.0
and Internet Explorer 4.0. This part is the most difficult. |
| 10/15-10/30 |
Re-vamped the main index pages to reduce complexity
and make the important stuff the most prominent. Did changing it
to a collapsible list succeed? |
| 10/15-10/30 |
I have gone over the tag pages with a fine-tooth
comb, fixing many inconsistencies and errors. |
| 10/1 |
Created sub-pages for the common attributes - there are
a LOT of them! Still trying to decide how these will be organized. Version
per tag information is complex and noisy to present - there has to be a good
way to do this. This problem will probably be the last thing I solve before I
re-publish the site. |
| 10/1 |
Updated the CSS pages to reflect IE 4.0 final release. |
| 10/1 |
Updated the CSS FAQ - The section on CSS editors
has been greatly expanded and added a question about how readers can
use their own style sheet. |
| 10/1 |
Main page has undergone yet another facelift.
I have yet to be satisfied with the result. It is getting better though. |
| 10/1 |
Split the tag index into pages for each letter. Adds
another clickthru to navigation, but it is cleaner and more pleasing. |
| 10/1 |
Added references to the HTML specifications/DTDs for
the spec history pages. |
| 10/1 |
Created 10 new support grid pages for the new HTML 4.0
Unicode character entities and references to them in the
TEXT overview page. |
| 10/1 |
Created 16 color swatch images to aid in identifying the
proper colors of the color names. Tempted to do the same for the expanded
set of 140, but I am not that stupid =) |
| 10/1 |
The site now uses 3 separate style sheets to control
appearance on all pages. For the moment I will leave the scheme as it
always has been, but this new method will allow me to try new things.
These style sheets will be included with the download, so readers
can customize the stylesheet's (I have heavily commented them and provided
a helper file in their directory) appearance for themselves. |
| 10/1 |
I have spent several weeks converting the entire site
site to using CSS. This was not easy, but I think the benefits will
be worth it. |
| 8/1 |
I had listed support for several HTML elements in HTML
3.0 which were not actually supported in the 3.0 DTD. This is because
these elements grew from proposals that had their beginnings in HTML 3.0.
I have changed the support history to reflect only those tags/attributes
that are actually supported in the HTML 3.0 DTD. |
| 8/1 |
All version information updated for CSS section. |
| 7/6 |
Updated several parts of the CSS section. |
| 7/6 |
I have tried to wrap up info for the Netscape 4.0
release. Many questions are still fuzzy, such as new FONT
attribute support, and whether OBJECT is actually supported. |
| 6/27 |
Corrected the information regarding FONT COLOR and
A HREF interaction AGAIN. Hopefully this is the last word on
the subject. |
| 6/21 |
Finished the rest of the CSS example pages. Whew! =) |
| 6/12 |
Added the first two CSS example pages. More to come soon! |
| 6/12 |
Fixed some out of date information on the
LINK
and STYLE pages. |
| 5/30 |
Freshened the archive version of the site. |
| 5/30 |
Added the
NATURALSIZEFLAG
attribute and FRAMEBORDER
compatibility pages under the 'miscellaneous topics' section. |
| 5/30 |
Added a bunch of mirror
sites and made pointers to them more prominent. |
| 5/30 |
Updated the main pages and archive dates for the 5/30 version. |
| 5/29 |
Added the JUSTIFY value to the block alignment tag attributes
and to the 'text-align' CSS property. |
| 5/26 |
Miscellaneous edits all over the site to accommodate
the addition of the Layer, Ilayer and Nolayer tags. |
| 5/26 |
Added the ILAYER
and NOLAYER tag
pages. Updated the LAYER
page to reflect recent changes in Netscape. |
| 5/14 |
Miscellaneous edits all over the site. |
| 5/5-5/9 |
Re-worked the What's New
page, re-worked the main logo and site map graphics. Added Mosaic
3.0 (the final Mosaic version) support details. Also changed
copyright wording to be
clearer on certain points |
| 5/1 |
Miscellaneous edits all over the site. |
| 5/1 |
Added a page for CSS extension proposals. I still
want to survey these capabilities in
detail, but that will have to wait until I have more time. |
| 4/19 |
Added NS4 beta 3 CSS1 support. I am still behind on
adding info on CSS positioning and other potential support of new
HTML tags in both Beta 2 and Beta 3. I need to get caught up. =) |
| 4/18-20 |
Fixed several typos and content errors throughout the site. |
| 4/18 |
I got over that melancholy sadness and finally decided
to delete the placeholder references to Mosaic in the Style Sheets
section. Since the browser is now gone, it never will support CSS1. |
| 4/14 |
I am trying to find enough time to wedge in testing
of IE4B1 and NS4B3, but that is proving exceedingly difficult at the
moment. Hopefully I can get to it this weekend. In the mean time, I
am shopping for a new provider and I am seeing that maintaining
the virtual FTP service that I now use in the download version
will be expensive. So, I am going to go to HTTP only download in preparation... |
| 3/17 |
Hotwired's Webmonkey featured a notice I made to
the W3-style mailing list about Netscape 4's CSS implementation.
I decided to freshen the download archive even though I have not
covered NS's new layout capabilities in CSS, the IFRAME tag or the
possible support of the OBJECT tag. I am working as fast as I can. =) |
| 3/17 |
Added the MARGINHEIGHT and MARGINWIDTH attributes to the
IFRAME tag. I boo-boo'ed
on this originally. |
| 3/17 |
Finally ran a link checker on the site and was dismayed
to find several broken links. They are fixed now. |
| 2/26-3/11 |
Documenting many of the changes in Netscape
4 Beta 2 (there are a lot of them, and still many to go.) This
affects MANY pages and I still have some more to wrap things up
(including increased LAYER support, CSS positioning, JSS and
possible OBJECT support.) I am going to break my monthly rule
and wait until ALL of these changes are documented to update the
site archive this time. |
| 2/9 |
Made the final tweaks to the site, and made the
site archive available. |
| 2/9 |
Added 'How Do I Get
Started Learning HTML?' authoring topic. |
| 2/9 |
Created the 'Indenting
in HTML' authoring topic. This is the first of hopefully many
pages in this area. |
| 2/2-2/6 |
Numerous edits and polishes in many pages. Actually
finished the HTML 2.0 page and polished the text overview. The
downloadable version gets closer and closer. |
| 1/31 |
Greatly expanded all the HTML history pages. Did a
lot of research and chasing of dead links to get exact dates
and info for the timelines and such. Check out the
HTML,
2.0,
3.0,
3.2, and
4.0 (originally the Cougar page) pages. |
| 1/31 |
Finished making the site download-friendly. This included
creating a few pages, moving around several pages and pointers and moving
a few pages out of the common structure itself - so far as I can tell it
will make maintenance easier. The downloaded version is not yet ready - I still
have a few more pages to finish. I am thinking next week it will be available. |
| 1/28 |
Finished the first major editing pass of the entire site. All
pages have been spell-checked, validated to the HTML 3.2 DTD and have at least a
rough edit to their credit. As I add more content and massage these pages this
round of edits may fall out of date. Also - I fixed most of the worst errors,
but seeing how obvious some of them were, I am sure I still missed some. I will
get this polished yet! =) |
| 1/24 |
Added quite a bit of content to the
Glossary page. Now you can look up
what all those weird acronyms mean. |
| 1/22 |
Finally added the Text
Overview page, and polished the character entity and
text tag pages as well. From here you can access the new
character entity table pages (all 8 of them! Whew! Am I glad THAT'S
over 8-}) |
| 1/12 |
Added INPUT
TYPE=BUTTON tag page. |
| 1/12 |
Added tag page for Netscape 4's new
LAYER tag. |
| 1/12 |
Updated tag history pages to reflect all changes made to the
individual tag pages. Been meaning to do this for a while. |
| 1/12 |
Documented misc tags and attributes found since original research was done. |
| 1/11 |
Updated release info regarding IE 3.01 and Netscape 4 Beta 1 |
| 1/11 |
Added Name/E-mail and copyright notice to all pages *whew* 8-}.
Please note the new e-mail address. |
| 1/10 |
Documented the TEXT
tag topic page and the TEXT overview page |
| 1/10 |
Updated all the other Style Sheet properties. |
| 1/9 |
Updated Style Sheet info for Font and Color/BG properties. |
| 1/8 |
Made minute changes to many tag pages to reflect
updated info. |
| 1/1 |
Beefed up the Caveats page. |
| 1/1 |
Revamped the Tag Support Key page. I can't believe how
ugly it was before! 8-} |
| 1/1 |
Broke up the Style Sheet index page into an
index and overview page. The old page just had too much info. |
| **** |
------------------------- Begin 1997 ------------------------- |
| 12/30 |
Changed the 'What's New' document (this document.) Moved
topics of what site was about out of this document to the
'what this site is for' page and updated
'to-do' list and added 'changes' section. |
| 12/29 |
Added the DTD
shorthands page detailing tag groupings for the parent/content
models found on each tag page |
| 12/29 |
revamped all tag pages to reflect changes in the shorthands page |
| 12/27 |
Added a mirrors/downloads
page to replace the old mirror link (in anticipation of having a
downloadable version of the site soon.) |