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Corrected some bad fragment anchors in the Font family glossary.
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Added label markup to all generic form include files for improved accessibility. Also added new image samples to the Windows font sampler:
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Completed the write-up and tabulation of the first Windows font survey results, dated from 23rd July. Noted the apparent bug in Opera browsers with the Marlett symbol font, where Book Antiqua is used in its place, and cut out the erroneous image links.
Also completed and published the Font family glossary page, adding multiple new entries and notes on all generic font-family classes, and produced a Code Style font sampler contents page for the subsection.
Updated the introductory text on the Code Style home page and CSS style guide section home page and CSS glossary and Code Style font sampler subsection standfirst to include references to the new documents.
Reconfigured the font survey forms to redirect to a custom confirmation page and tested, and added sectional link navigation and subsection meta keywords to all documents in the font sampler subsection.
Created a first draft Who is Philip Shaw? article and replaced all footer links to point to it in place of the former mailto link. Created a table of contents include file for the Code Style section and added it to a new Code Style contents page for the section with references to the new item.
Subsequently added this Code Style table of contents include file to the root level contents page. Also created a new "contents by section" super menu for this page and added "Top" links to it beneath each entry. The top links have the class TopLink and are right aligned in all relevant stylesheets.
/*
Generic link up-screen
*/
.TopLink{
text-align: right;
}
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Further additions and refinements to the Font family glossary, including the addition of a range of illustrative images. Also started the write-up and tabulation of the first Windows font survey results, and created a generic bar chart image, bar-12pxRed.gif (12px by 1px), which can be horizontally sized as required.
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Produced a new Apache custom errors article set with specific notes for, 400, bad request, 403, access forbidden, 404, document not found and 500, internal server error, derived from the notes published to date on the actual error pages. Changed the meta element values on the error pages and robots.txt file to exclude robots and added .htaccess configuration for error 400 and 500.
<meta
name="robots"
content="none" />
<meta
name="description"
content="This document is not
recommended for general access,
please navigate via the home page."
/>
Cut the preference rating radio buttons out of the Code Style font sampler set to simplify.
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Extended the expires date for all image types to 3 months to improve caching, and set CSS types to the default 7 days as an experiment.
Completed the first draft alternate stylesheet, CSAlternate.css, for Netscape 6 and Mozilla, tested thoroughly offline with Opera 5.11 and Internet Explorer 5.5 using the draft CSSSelector servlet. The position: fixed #Sidebar div is not supported by Internet Explorer 5.5.
Replaced standard spaces with non breaking spaces in all #Footbar menu text to ensure that the hypertext links don't break over lines.
Also did further testing and write-up on the all and screen media test pages for Internet Explorer 5.5. Added further pointers to the custom 403 error page, and added a summary Tomcat on Windows ME document, which points to the Apache Tomcat on Windows 95 article.
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Corrected all newsgroup anchors without specific news hosts to the psuedo protocol news: without double slashes.
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Added a seeother redirect for truncated /java/servers/tomcat- URLs. Extended the Code Style contents page to include the Java and Javascript tables of contents.
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Modified the custom 404 error page to include links to the twenty most popular pages by request, as of 9 July 2001. Opened the Javascript & DOM section home page, including Javascript FAQ and initial Contents pages. Changed all footer includes with Footbar menus to include the new section, plus the standard sidebar and Anchor Points section menu. Also changed the file references FAQ to use definition list markup and emphasised the equivalence of script and image references, as it's now included in the Javascript FAQ.
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Finalised the Javascript section and subsection link link navigation includes and did further work on the Golden rules of Javascript article. Made the hyperlinks to the CSS and Javascript files in the DOM1 visibility menus article more prominent, added help page links and re-grouped some declarations in the visibility-HorizontalMenus.css stylesheet to avoid redefinition of some properties. Also added created, issued and modified dates to the CSS and Javascript files for reference.
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Changes to the root .htaccess file to redirect all favicon.ico requests to the root level location of this file, and correctly to specify UTF-8 for XHTML file types. Added meta element block to Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 "Smart Tag" parsing:
<meta
name="MSSmartTagsPreventParsing"
content="TRUE" />
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Uploaded all offline changes since approximately 20th May to most live sections of the site including:
@import rules.
link navigation points in some sections.
Also added a new site-wide contents page, which presently is equivalent to the CSS style guide contents page.
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