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DESKTOP TOOL - CHANGE HISTORY
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5.3.0 (29th June 2008)
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o Advanced tool now has all Pro Tool options on the Advanced Tab
    ie Results and Dictionary options
o Change the default folder used to store results and other data to
  be the expected folder depending on the OS used:
  	WinXP: 'My Documents' and 'Application Data'
  	Vista: 'Documents' and 'AppData'
	OSX:   'Documents' and "Library/Application Support'
	Linux: the installation folder
o Linux version of Advanced Tool released
o Camino 1.5 -> 1.6 for screenshots
o If Location header contains a relative URL then prefix it with '/'
  for bad web servers
o Strip off all quotes in charsets in Content-Type header'"UTF-8"' to cater
  for bad web servers
o BUG: Corrected a few mistakes with validating <label> element
o BUG: When spell checking a single character it sometimes spellchecked the
       next element name
o BUG: Fixed HTML 2.0 validation flaws with deprecated elements
o BUG: Didn't properly ignore PIs in XHTML at top of page
o BUG: Charset comparison between content type and html tag should have
       been case-insensitive
o BUG: W605/W606 covering the default style and scripting languages are now
	   full errors E649/E650


5.2.0 (15th April 2008)
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o 'Show on success' option now on Basic tab for all tools. This has been
  extended to allow page layout to be viewed even when no problems found.
o On reports now displays a success image instead of success/fail messages
o Reinstated screenshots for Firefox 1.0, 1.5 and Mozilla 1.7 on Linux
o Support for Firefox 3 OSX screenshots
o Support for Firefox 1.5 and Safari 2.1 OSX screesnhots
o Support for Safari 3.1 Windows screenshots
o BUG(ish): Now catches "Premature EOF" error when poor MS servers abruptly
  kill the connection
o BUG: Accessibility test E828 was not working (http-equiv=refresh)
o BUG: Wasn't remembering screenshot options when closed tool


5.1.0 (21st March 2008)
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o Added German spell checking
o File browser now allow any files to be validated
o Support for Firefox 3 Windows screenshots
o Support for Firefox 3 and Opera9 Linux screenshots
o Removed Firefox 1.0 (Linux), Firefox 1.5 (Linux) and Mozilla (Linux)
o BUG: When Basic Tool called from Extension didn't recognise local files


5.0.0 (27th January 2008)
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o New Advanced Tool to replace Pro Tool for new users
o Many new HTML and Parsing validations added
o Much better validation of XML declarations
o Better character set conflict detection
o Support for UTF-16LE BOM and better support for BOM is general
o Added language type validation
o Added URI list type validation and better URI type checking
o W605/W606 now highlight the attribute and not the atribute value
o On summary page highlights the results better
o Much improved validation of user values on Tool UI
o Moved Pages/Depth to Basic tab for easier use
o New Spellcheck option for using own spellcheck dictionary and support
  for saving misspelled words
o Enables the screenshot tab dynamically depending on whether the checkbox
  on the Basic tab is checked or not
o Enables broken links options depending on links checkbox on Basic tab
o Enables spell options depending on spellcheck dropdown on basic tab
o File browse now also looks for .xhtml pages


4.4.5 (30th November 2007)
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o Upgraded Safari screenshots to 3.0
o Bug: Was ignoring E610 and related checks for inner tags
o Bug: <script> within <script> and <style> within <style> were not
  being ignored


4.4.0 (10th October 2007)
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o Can now strip query parameters from links on pages to prevent loops
o Can now strip ';' style session parameters from links to prevent loops
o The command line version of the tool has new option to display the path
  to the results file
o Added W605/W606 checks for default script and style languages
o Tightened up content-type checking and added W607,W608,E633,E634
o Bug: Single ampersand in content caused a String index out of bounds error
  due to the new entity checking code


4.3.0 (15th September 2007)
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o Better validation of character references
o Path to Skip option now accepts regular expressions
o Centred snapshot images on results page so looks nicer
o E835 now always marks both links involved and does a slightly better job of
  comparing hrefs
o Bug: 'Revalidate' links caused validation problems
o Bug: Redirected external 302's didn't work when Location was relative
o Bug: Invalid charset definitions in http headers caused validation to fail


4.2.0 (5th August 2007)
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o UI can now be run from the Firefox extension picking up the extension
  settings
o Camino for OS/X screenshots now available
o Increased number of redirects a page may have to 7
o Added extra messages when bad characters/missing anchors in redirected
  links so they stand out more
o When traversing a site now sets the referer header to the referring page
  rather than a fixed url


4.1.0 (30th June 2007)
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o Support for alternative suffix for mail attachments to help bypass fussy
  mail servers
o New menu option to stop the results being displayed in the default browser
  at the end of a validation. Command line option to do the same.
o New 'Last Results' button to display the last results in the default browser
  at any time.
o Command line option to display an extended exit status
o New menu option to hide the splashscreen
o Now spellchecks words with styled first letters eg <span>T</span>hese
o Cookies with poorly formatted expiry dates are now handled
o Broken link checking now more forgiving of suspect servers like browsers are
o Broken link checking now ignores hostnames in SSL certificates
o Renamed 'Broken Links' to 'Links' in reports to avoid misunderstanding
o Bug: More robust handling of redirects when checking links
o Bug: Link checking didn't display redirect messages with 'report redirect'
  option chosen unless you also had 'show warnings' selected
o Bug: Didn't display problems for broken links on subsequent pages
o Bug: Domain based cookies were not being handled correctly
o Bug: Removed W604 as it was incorrect


4.0.2 (24th May 2007)
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o Bug: Authentication not saving details properly
o Bug: Fails when remote web server is unstable
o Bug: Failed ungracefully when id attribute contained a bad id that
  included a percent character


4.0.1 (21st May 2007)
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o Bug: Authentication Dialog pointed to old gif
o Bug: ISO/IEC option is missing from dropdown
o Bug: Fails to handle certain bad entity references


4.0.0 (12th May 2007)
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o New option to follow all the remote links on the starting page. So can
  easily test more than one site or unconnected parts of the same site
o On the advanced tab you can now specify which folder to save the
  results to and change the name of the results index page and sub-folder
o File menu option to clear the starting page drop down
o Breakdown of problems into different types added to the report summary
  page
o Vista certified and optimised
o Applied latest branding
o Made UI more compact
o Added '-help' option to the  command line version
o Updated Accessibility tests
o Updated id/name tests
o Now handles files with no tags in
o Bug: Virtual tags wrong for <body> in framesets
o Bug: Script/style checking seomtimes upset best-fit algorithm
o Bug: Authentication prompting now thread safe and cached
o Bug: Infinite loop when formatting results sometimes occurred


3.4.0 (24th February 2007)
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o Attribute checking expanded to cover almost every type
o New 'Short Report' option in Options menu which only displays lines with
  problems
o Report now highlights many problems in red to help locate them
o Report breaks down accessibility problems by A, AA etc.
o Report displays implicit tags if there are any errors/warnings
  associated with them
o Improved implementation of connection and read timeouts to help broken
  link checking
o Internal refactoring to improve performance and stability
o Now sends 'Accept' and 'Referer' headers when checking pages
o Added Command Line help for cookies
o Removed Mozilla for Mac screenshot (too unstable)
o Upgraded embedded Java to latest version for better Vista support
o Bug: Duplicate <html> tags caused a problem with implicit tags


3.3.0 (17th January 2007)
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o Cookie support to help preserve sessions whilst validating a site. The
  Basic tool only stores first party and session cookies in memory. The Pro
  tool can save cookies to disk and has full control over their use.
o Pro tool: Option to allow misspelt words to be saved for easier creation
  of additional dictionaries.
o When validations are cancelled, the results so far are displayed
o Bug: When you reuse a starting page from the drop-down list it now moves
  to the top of the list
o Bug: Best-fit HTML algorithm choosing wrong DTD
o Bug: Properly resolves relative links as per RFCs
o Bug: Ignores links to W3C validator
o Bug: Corrected detection of '& ' in text - no longer an error
o Bug: Infinite loop decoding "&#038;" fixed
o Bug: incorrectly parsed special tags, e.g. <? ?>


3.2.0 (9th December 2006)
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o Multi-browser screenshots (max of 6) with optional email
o Supports email address option of FFox Extension
o Support for IE5.01 and IE4.01 screenshots
o Added a 'validating' window when run from the Extension
o If only one page validated then results page displayed in place of summary
o Now enforces a minimum size for the main window so can't be smaller than
  makes sense. All other dialogs/frames are now non-resizable
o Many minor changes
o Bug: Now strips off anchors when validating local files from Extension
o Bug: When upgrade from Basic to Pro correctly resets the window size
o Bug: Browser identification documentation added
o Bug: Editing issues in dialogs corrected
o Bug: Redirection when starting page redirected to local page fixed
o Bug: Overwrites the Results folder if can't remove it


3.1.1 (5th November 2006)
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o Bug: Changes to identity not 'seen' until you restart the tool
o Bug: Warning W002 not included in warning counts


3.1.0 (3rd November 2006)
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o User agent editor for selecting the identity of the tool
o New Best-fit option for HTML validation that works out the best HTML
  standard to test against irrespective of any existing !DOCTYPE tag
o IE v7 and Firefox v2 (Windows,Linux,OS/X) screenshots for Pro tool
o Mac and Linux versions of the Pro tool
o BOM (Byte Order Mark) detection for UTF-8 documents
o Enhancements to the reporting with a break down of problems into
  different categories.
o Added warning when have empty alt tags
o Reduced default timeout for broken links to 20 secs to speed up bad
  page checking, also minimum reduced to 10 secs
o Bug: the content-type check for XHTML was case-sensitive and shouldn't have
  been
o Bug: Text for W001 was being displayed for W002 (bad comment) warnings


3.0.0 (30th September 2006)
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o You can now change the user agent the tool identifies itself as
o New Screenshot feature for the Pro tool allowing screenshots of the
  starting page to be taken using the online service
o Support for Pro tool being launched from the Firefox extension
  providing one-click validation of an entire site
o New command line options for Pro tool (see documentation)
o Bug: Corrected comments in example commandline.props
o Bug: Missing checks on values of skip path entries


2.1.3 (3rd September 2006)
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o When get a 501 response to a HEAD request, try a GET instead
o Command line version now ignores server certificate checks with
  https:// pages
o Command line version now uses the parallelised and optimised broken
  link testing


2.1.2 (18th July 2006)
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o Moved E626, E627, E628 tests back into HTML Validator
o Enhanced character reference checking all around and extended to cover
  content checking as well
o Bug: Missing head and body tags in HTML sometimes caused invalid errors to
  be reported
o Bug: Now correctly uses charset from HTTP header
o Bug: Didn't allow all errors < 11 to be ignored!
o Bug: Didn't prevent duplicates for errors < 11
o Bug: File upload and cut and paste on online site broken
o Bug: Out of memory errors caused by documents with >15000 tags. Restrictions
  put in place for online service.
o Bug: Didn't properly test the domain of the starting web page when deciding
  which pages to include in multi-page checks
o Bug: Heavily indented pages caused out of memory failures


2.1.0 (8th July 2006)
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o Updated tool to engine 3.3.2
o Broken link testing is now run in parallel and has been optimised.
  This may significantly improve broken link performance especially when
  checking more than one page
o Optimised multi-page validating for faster checking of large sites
o The Pro tool now has the ability to ignore one or more sub-folders
  when validating
o Authentication tab now allows entry of a single proxy type/host/port to
  replace any system defined proxy server settings
o Pro tool has new option to list those pages that had zero errors
o Command Line version now additionally accepts a properties file containing
  startup parameters
o You can now increase the maximum memory used by the tool when testing
  large/deep sites
o Pro tool now allows suppression of errors less than E011
o Removed accessibility test E852 - no longer required
o Latest version of Java (JRE1.5.0_7) is now bundled
o Now checks the content-types of HTML and XHTML in meta tags
o Enhanced the E026 error message so it says which attribute has the problem
o Server certificate checks are now ignored when checking https:// pages, so
  pages with test certificates can now be tested
o Bug: No longer insists on a space at start of comments
o Bug: Singletons are now not allowed in HTML documents
o Bug: Incorrectly reported that use the 'lang' attribute should be used
  with XHTML 1.1 files (Accessibility validator only)
o Bug: Event attributes were not being recognised for XHTML 1.1


2.0.0 (21st May 2006)
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o Updated tool to engine 3.2.1
o Enhanced HTTP engine with more robust handling of GET requests
o Now remembers the last 10 starting pages validated (pull down list)
o 'Reset All' no longer resets the starting folder or 'auto-updates' option
o Moved some items from the Basic tab to a new Options menu
o The tool now remembers it's size and position on screen
    - 'reset all' sets back to defaults
o Option to pickup and use proxy server settings from Windows control panel
o Pro Tool now has more authentication options
    - New authentication tab with authentication details for web and proxy
      servers
    - Support for BASIC/DIGEST/SOCKS/NTLM when authenticating
    - Option of being prompted for authentication details
o Many spellcheck enhancements:
    - Better recognition of plurals in English
    - More words for each language
    - Misspelled words are now saved to disk for easier addition to dictionary
    - Better suggestions when misspelled words found
    - Uses the 'lang' and 'xml:lang' attributes to decide when to check
    - Option to ignore these language attributes and revert to old behaviour
o Re-added the up/down arrows on the report to navigate between problems
o Allows the starting page to be a redirect (up to 5 redirections allowed)
o No longer tries to interpret and follow links in javascript
o Auto-updates check no longer displays a message at startup
o Documentation updated to reflect all changes
o Bug: Didn't handle conditional comments properly (or CDATA sections)
o Bug: Using "http://    " (ie using trailing spaces) caused memory overflow
o Bug: The <base>tag was not being handled as per the spec at
    http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec10.html
o Bug: Pages that ended with a single '<' caused memory overflow errors
o Bug: A number of null pointer exceptions have been caught and dealt with


1.3.1 (12th Mar 2006)
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o Updated tool with latest engine
o Bug: When testing local pages, a starting folder with spaces in caused
  incorrect errors to be displayed
o Bug: Pages with missing <html> tag not dealt with properly (broken in
  earlier version)
o Bug: Changed parsing of javascript urls to work better


1.3.0 (6th Feb 2006)
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o Updated tool with latest engine
o Progress indicator on Pro version that displays pages validated and pages
  queued for validating
o When autodetecting the DOCTYPE the actual doctype used is now displayed for
  each page of results
o Bug: 403/404/405 errors generated by broken links would often cause an
  infinite loop of link tests to be performed
o Bug: When autodetecting if the DOCTYPE was malformed in a certain way it
  then defaulted to HTML4.01 without warning, and didn't mark the original
  error


1.2.3 (23rd Jan 2006)
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o Updated tool with latest engine
o Updates to validation messages - returned to using A, AA, etc indicator for
  accessibility
o Amended the Pro tool to go to the correct download page when updates are
  detected
o Added ability to silently auto-check for updates each time the tool is run
o Added extra words to UK/US dictionaries
o Bug: Caught error caused by wildly incorrect entities in text during spell
  checks


1.2.2 (16th Nov 2005)
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o Replaced .bat file with .exe for proper launching on Windows


1.2.1 (13th Nov 2005)
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o New stylesheet, logo and layout for web pages
o New report screen shots
o 2.7.2 validation engine included
o Bug: Tags are being displayed within <style>
o Bug: Link to the Help page is incorrect
o Bug: Reports for command line option have incorrect headers
o Bug: When 'number of pages' is blank it defaults to 1 instead of unlimited
o Bug: Properly decode anchor names when checking for matches


1.2.0 (3rd Nov 2005)
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o Minor updates to validation messages
o Bug: Spanish spellchecker is not coreclty handling plurals
o Pro Tool released with most of 'Advanced Form' options on new tab and
  command line option
o Make Warnings optional
o Use better options in the spellcheck drop down
o Centre the 'please wait' window on the window and not on the screen
o Move Cancel button to the 'please wait' window
o Minor updates to documentation
o Minor mods to menus
o Added tooltips to GUI
o Added options to reset all values to defaults
o Created install with Embedded JRE
o Better input validation
o Improvements to spell checker to improve matches
o 2.7.1 validation engine included
o Bug: Remote server sometimes gives a 403/404 response when checking links
o Bug: When attribute value is "" it should be a valid ID
o Bug: Accessibility test AAA15 incorrect
o Bug: Accessibility test AAA104 not being run
o Bug: Spelling mistakes in pad file
o Bug: Implied tags such as <html> in HTML4.01 and below being added
  inconsistently
o Bug: Implied tags are being validated
o Bug: Doesn't complain about missing doctype if there's a comment on the
  previous line
o Bug: Very short badly formed comments aren't being recognised (eg <!---->)


1.1.0 (13th Oct 2005)
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o Overhaul of validation results error/warning messages
o Added option for spelling checks of alt/title/summary/label/prompt/standby
  attributes
o Added 'Check for Updates' Help menu item
o 2.6.0 validation engine included
o Bug: Line numbering was sometimes out of sync
o Bug: Tags within attributes messing up report output


1.0.0 (6th Oct 2005)
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o Initial release of desktop tool with 2.5.0 validation engine