My hobbyist coding updates and releases as the mysterious "Mr. Tines"

Sunday, 26 October 2003

CSS Validator resources

Uploaded the pre-built resource files for the VS.NET build of the CSS Validator.

Monday, 4 August 2003

Geocities site cleanup

Well, as freecrypto.org has bit the big one, nuke the last (animated) .gif — rather than .mng it.

Saturday, 21 June 2003

Validator Updates

Both the XHTML validator programs now support

  • whole folder validation, and
  • respecting file declared DOCTYPE (if it's one of the three XHTML DTDs, 1.0 Transition, 1.0 Strict or 1.1, defaulting to 1.0 Strict).

Versions are now 2.1.1263.35260 for .NET and 1.2 for Java. The Java version is noisier than the .NET version, in emitting redefinition warnings; but the W3C validator agrees with the .NET version where I have done comparisons.

Fixed bug in the Java build of the CSS2 parser that didn't handle relative file:// URLs properly, so failed on @import url() statements; this is something long ago fixed in the J# version - just forgot I needed to port it back.

Tweaked style sheets so that Konqueror 3.0 doesn't merge the print style into the screen presentation and hide the site-map links.

Saturday, 31 May 2003

Saturday, 24 May 2003

Geocities site cleanup

Late spring holiday weekend, and another spring-clean. The brushed-metal look was too oppressive as it stood, so I've toned it down, and added a dash of colour. Page layout is now done with CSS on modern browsers - thanks to the CSS gurus at alistapart.com, bluerobot.com, and thenoodleincident.com for the hints, tips, worked examples and design philosophy.
FWIW all pages are now XHTML 1.1, at least until the hosting service's scripts start.

Friday, 23 May 2003

Validator Updates

More fixes to work around places where J# is not a perfect Java-alike in v2.0.1238 and supporting DLL.

Tuesday, 20 May 2003

Validator Updates

Minor updates uploaded to both validators, mainly to tidy up output formats, but also to echo the DOCTYPE actually declared in the document being checked, if it has one. Versions are now 2.0.1234.35151 for .NET and 1.1-02 for Java.