The Code Style site has evolved by gradual refinement and accumulation of features and content. This review is part of a fully backdated site log and archive that sheds light on when, why and how particular features were implemented.
This log is sometimes updated several times per week, sometimes with a long overdue backlog of items. Many log entries refer to the Code Style Java package that delivers the servlet services and utilities used to manage this site.
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30th August 2001
Added em length values to the Flash logo class, .FlashLogo to size it proportionally to the default browser text size in supporting browsers.
.FlashLogo{
float: right;
border: none;
margin: 1% 2%;
/*
percent lengths operate on canvass
size, so height is different from
width! These settings "work" at
multiple resolutions, but need
testing.
width: 12%;
height: 19.5%;
*/
/*
em lengths map with font size and
are equal in width and height.
*/
width: 7em;
height: 7em;
}
Created a new Site log contents page and added a link to it and valign="top" attributes to the cells in the archive links table in the site log section.
29th August 2001
Completed the second update to the figures and introductory text for the Windows font survey results and updated all relevant index pages accordingly. Also added a range of standard OS X fonts to the Mac font sampler page and stylesheet, Sampler.css and renamed the font references to Heisei Kaku Gothic and Heisei Mincho. Sampled and added an image of the Mac font Papyrus.
19th August 2001
Made minor corrections to the nesting of label and br markup in the standard article feedback form include file.
18th August 2001
Added top and left declarations to the #Sidebar selector in the alternate stylesheet, CSAlternate.css to position it correctly.
/*
Sidebar scrolls with the page,
not supported by IE5.5 and below.
*/
#Sidebar{
position: fixed;
width: 14%;
top: 25%;
left: 0.5%;
color: #000;
background: #C9C;
margin-top: 1%;
margin-left: 0;
padding-left: 2%;
border-style: solid;
border-width: 1px;
border-color: #FCF #969 #636 #969;
}
Also changed padding to just padding-bottom for the #Footbar selector in the standard stylesheet, CSStandardImport.css, and made border-width on form elements 1px, mainly for Mozilla.
#Footbar{
clear: both;
color: #FFF;
background: #039;
border-top-color: #99C;
border-bottom-color: #006;
border-style: solid;
border-width: 2px 0px;
margin-top: 1em;
padding-bottom: 0.1em;
text-align: center;
font-family: arial, sans-serif;
}
Made minor changes to the element indenting for all standard form include files.
15th August 2001
Corrected the link to the W3C markup validator in the standard error footer include file.
12th August 2001
Sampled and added an image of the Unix font Utopia to the Unix family font sampler.
11th August 2001
Added a range of font image samples to the Mac font sampler and Unix family font sampler pages:
7th August 2001
Added Monotype.com font image to the Windows font sampler and Windows font survey results pages and corrected some bad fragment anchors.
5th August 2001
Extended research and write-up for CSS2 media stylesheet test pages with results for Opera 3.62 with all, aural, braille, embossed, handheld, screen, tty, and tv media style rules. Also refined the right-aligned box-out style rules for all necessary stylesheets to add an At a glance panel to the home page.
Created a summary Code Style site statistics page with top requests, top referrers and top host domains for general interest and included this in the Code Style section contents page. Added Dublin Core DC.Description.Abstract meta elements to this and the site home page and updated the What's new page accordingly.
4th August 2001
Corrected the generic Dublin Core DC.Creator meta element, which was incorrectly declared as DC.Author.
1st August 2001
Created a third sub-version of the FontSampler servlet to present the text and image samples with the standard Code Style wide stylesheet by adding a new customisable stylesheet and meta keywords method to the ServletUtilities class. Stripped out the redundant rules in Sampler.css.
Previously on Code Style
These backdated pages record detailed changes to the Code Style Web site since July 2000, when development first got underway. Some pages may refer to documents or features that have since changed or are no longer part of the site, but the archive is checked to ensure there are no dead links.
Site log, origins to present
For a summary overview, see the annotated site log contents.
