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Created separate test pages for Font survey applet test, Firefox syntax and Font survey applet test, Internet Explorer syntax to check the syntax used by the Konqueror browser, which is the IE version.
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Made all final amends to the W3C CSS validator installation article, including screen shot image sequences for EditPlus, TextPad and UltraEdit. Completed the "Stop CSS errors" banner image to promote the article and carried through the standard publication checklist with links from the CSS style guide and Java & servlets index pages, subject index, site map, CSS newsletters sign-up page and home page.
Adapted the SequenceFactory class to allow PNG images to be used in the ViewSequence servlet for the W3C CSS validator installation article. Refactored the main newSequence(HttpServletRequest, DocumentTemplate) method to extract a new private static boolean isValidType(final String type) from it.
Created a new premium content service sign-up button for a more stand-out call to action. Incorporated the sign-up button in the output of the FaqMenuGenerator class and updated the calls to action in the alt text and title attributes on the element.
Added the AdButtonBar div class to the grouped selector in the print media style sheet, CSPrint.css, which hides these elements, and adjusted the width of preformatted text blocks.
/*
Hide unnecessary selectors.
*/
.WideNav, #Sidebar, #Footbar, form,
.TopLink, .AlphaLinks, .NavBar,
.RgtBox, .LftBox, .RgtPicBox,
LftPicBox, .MenuBox, #SiteSearch, .URI,
.TextAd, #Footer .Button, .Sponsor,
.SponsorZone, #LinkShare, img.Logo,
.AdButtonBar {
display: none;
}
#Content pre, #Content pre.Wide {
width: 90%;
margin-right: 0;
}
Created a new version 1.1.4 of the FontSurveyApplet which excludes all Java console output in standard operation. Debug status messages are only output when the debug parameter is set. The problem case of Firefox 3.6 on Open SUSE Linux reported in site log, 9th February works when the Java console is open, so may have something to do with messages written to the console. Deployed the applet to the applet test page and switched off the debug parameter for further tests.
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Published the latest FAQs and split the Java programming FAQ into a new Java modifiers FAQ with cross references to the Java static context FAQ, Java interface FAQ and Java threads FAQ. Added the new FAQ to the site map, subject index, Java & servlets section index, Java & servlets news fees and Java newsletters pages.
static modifier apply to the main() method?
synchronized and volatile modifiers work?
static variables and methods?
abstract keyword?
Added the Cursive font sampler to the CSS newsletters listing since it had been omitted to date.
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Released new version 1.1.3 of the font survey applet with additional debugging messages in the applet init() method to trace progress. Deployed the applet to the applet test page with the debug parameter set activate the debug output to test a problem case of Firefox 3.6 on Open Suse with Sun Java 1.6.0 update 18. The font survey applet is compatible with many versions of Firefox on Linux, see applet object submissions for Linux browsers.
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Made the monthly font survey update and moved on the rolling archive date to maintain the 3 year span. Created a common font survey statistics server side include file to summarise the sample number of submissions included in the results, submissions per week and the origin of the font survey applet per platform. Added the summary statistics all survey results pages.
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