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Added the new server side include files for Web font survey statistics to the PSFTP upload script for survey results updates.
Increased the most popular article listing to 5 items based on recent feedback and moved up the home page.
Amended the call to action for the Apache custom error pages articles to shorten and highlight HTTP errors.
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Removed the CSS max-width restriction on the global navigation bar so it expands in proportion with the width of the browser window. Now only the min-width property remains, nested in an @media screen block.
@media screen{
#Sidebar {
min-width: 194px;
}
}
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Re-generated Java inheritance FAQ to correct the grouping of categories on the page and the sequence of sections in the local navigation.
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object comparison, 21st November 2009
Added a table to the Java applet object in XHTML article to show the proportion of browsers by operating system for the site as a whole compared with font survey applet submissions. Windows systems are slightly over-represented in font survey submissions compared with general site usage. Mac and Linux submissions are very close in proportion to users with Java enabled.
Updated the ViewSource servlet to accept server parsed Javascript and CSS files content, .xjs and .xcss, through a new EXTENSIONS array check. Extracted the conditions that check path extensions to a new isAcceptedExtension(String) method and simplified the conditional handling of requested path parameter.
Added site log entries for 7 November and 14 November 2009, and corrected a bad site log link to the One percent better manifesto page. Corrected the Javascript email newsletters subscription page with the correct path to the recent CSS3 extension styles with Javascript article. Also corrected a ViewSource servlet path reference for the article's Javascript source, css3-ExtensionStyles.js.
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Updated the FaqMenuGenerator class to shorten the question URLs for email newsletter notification to just the codestyle.org domain, which redirects to the www.codestyle.org subdomain.
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Updated the EntranceKeywords.js script to add search engine referrers for Search.com, Ask Jeeves, AOL Search and AltaVista. All have the query parameter q.
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Published a new set FAQ answers on various Java topics, Javascript and Web fonts, including 2 new premium content FAQs. Also created a set of SQL queries to check FAQs for a set of standard subject vocabulary terms to help cross-reference answers and generated lists of topic-related questions.
public static final?
Serializable interface?
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Published the latest font survey results update with summary analysis of fonts not normally regarded as "Web safe" but appearing with equivalent frequency in the results listings. Specifically Lucida Sans Unicode, Lucida Console, Palatino Linotype and Franklin Gothic Medium on Windows; Helvetica Neue, Gill Sans and Futura on Mac and the whole of the top 10 on Linux.
Latest: Build a better CSS font stack with our font survey results:
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