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Created new browser identification checks for font survey submissions to cover a special case of the Galeon user agent string, to identify the "WindowsNT" operating system, Internet Explorer 7 and IE 8 and multiple versions of Firefox from 1.5.0.1 through to 3.1 beta 3. Also adjusted the exception check at the end of the script to select and list unrecognised browser name, version numbers and operating systems individually.
Added notes to the FontSurveyApplet source code on unrecognised Unicode character values that are being passed through and causing errors with PostgreSQL, despite Unicode encoding.
0xc2 Â (194 decimal)
0xcc Ì (204 decimal)
0xd1 Ñ (209 decimal)
0xe6 æ (230 decimal)
0xe9 é (233 decimal)
0xea ê (234 decimal)
0xf9 ù (249 decimal)
Created a first draft article on using XHTML object markup for Java applets with a table of Web browsers that have successfully loaded and submitted the font survey applet.
Added top 10 search engine queries to the CSS text ads for the Web font sampler section. Added a few new CSS Anchor Points.
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Removed the list marker image from all unordered list items and adjusted the margins on ordered and unordered lists and list items. Explicitly set the list style for nested unordered lists to a disc.
/*
Paragraphs and lists are dark grey,
no font-family specified.
*/
ol, p, ul{
color: #333;
background: transparent;
}
ul, ul ul{
list-style: disc;
}
.MenuBox ul, .MenuBox ol,
.ScrollMenuBox ul,
.ScrollMenuBox ol {
padding-left: 0.2em;
padding-top: 0.2em;
padding-right: 0em;
margin-top: 0em;
margin-left: 1.2em;
margin-right: 0em;
}
.MenuBox ul li, .MenuBox ol li,
.ScrollMenuBox ul li,
.ScrollMenuBox ol li {
margin-top: 0.2em;
}
Created a first draft article on configuring the W3C CSS validator as a desktop application and integration with several text editors.
Updated the Alexa profile for Code Style in the text ad service and sponsored link service local navigation boxout.
Updated the JTidy development notes call to action to be more succinct.
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Added the new Java static context page to the site map, subject index, Java newsletters, Java news feeds, Java and servlets section index, Java and servlets contents, appendix link elements in the section head include files and Code Style home page.
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Changed the local navigation heading in the AbstractSample class from "A better font stack" to "Better CSS font stacks" to give scope to include both the font stack builder and build better CSS font stacks article beneath. Also brought the text ad service link in line with the down arrow format used in other areas of the site.
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Issued the latest font survey results and FAQs including a new Java static context FAQ. Re-arranged the action points on the Code Style home page to highlight the latest additions.
Latest: Build a better CSS font stack with our font survey results:
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Added an Internet Explorer 8 CSS media monitor call to action to the main CSS style guide index page and an adapted version for the media monitor index page itself. Also created print media browser conformance and projection media browser conformance calls to action include files. Added standard "Follow Code Style" links to media monitor boxout for local navigation and brought its text ads service link up to date with the standard down arrow version.
Created a new version of the generic font survey query to select statistics for symbol fonts, just for private research. The data set currently contains incorrectly classified non-Latin fonts and is exclusively Windows. Also created a count script for the number of premium content questions per FAQ section.
Adjusted the font survey archive SQL script to create a rolling 4 year sample set.
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