---------------------------------- FIREFOX EXTENSION - CHANGE HISTORY ---------------------------------- 6.7 (30th August 2010) ---------------------- o Support for Firefox 4 o Updated HTML5 to 24th June specification o Corrected previous HTML5 omissions o Added support for Firefox 4 screenshots o Safari v5 replaces Safari v4 screenshots o Line numbers added to those problems relating to multiple tags o Added the character position of errors in attribute values o BUG: When is omitted in HTML the 'virtual' position was sometimes calculated incorrectly o BUG: in wasn't being dealt with correctly 6.6 (19th June 2010) -------------------- o Added HTML4+RDFa 1.0 validation o Updated HTML5 to March 4th specification o Additional tests for older specifications 6.5 (21st May 2010) ------------------- o Added XHTML+RDF 1.1 validation o Improvements to all XHTML Module based validations o Improvements and updates to HTML5 validation o Email options now only available for Pro Tool due to abuse o BUG: Skip paths that contained '&' were improperly displayed on the summary page 6.3 (7th March 2010) -------------------- o Extension now runs in SeaMonkey o Added SeaMonkey to list of screenshots (Windows, Mac, Linux) o Added file system browse buttons for 'Own dictionary', 'Save results to' and 'Tool path' o Added robots.txt support for skipping paths o New option to validate error pages (e.g. 404 pages) o User agent for validations now defaults to 'Total_Validator/6.0' 6.2.1 (5th February 2010) ------------------------- o Added option to limit the number of concurrent broken link checks o Added Firefox 3.6 screenshots, and restored FF1 and Mozilla for Linux o Amended to cope with non Western characters when sending source o Move passwords to password system as requested by Mozilla o Added Czech and Chinese (Simplified) locales 6.2 (1st January 2010) ---------------------- o Added support for four new HTML validations: XHTML+RDFa, XHTML Basic 1.0 and 1.1, and XHTML-Print 1.0 o Updated XHTML 1.1 validation o Added Google Chrome screenshots for Linux and OS X, updated Camino to v2, and dropped Mozilla for Linux o Updated Firefox extension to support 3.6 6.1.1 (18th November 2009) -------------------------- o BUG FIX: Now allows Linux Basic Tool to be used 6.1 (4th November 2009) ----------------------- o HTML5 validation now available (October 17th version of the spec) o Significant performance improvements with 'Auto-detect' and 'Best-fit', when checking more than one page. 6.0.2 (11th September 2009) --------------------------- o Added support for Opera 10 screenshots 6.0 (23rd August 2009) ---------------------- o Support for the latest W3C accessibility guidelines (WCAG v2) o Upgrades to Konqueror, Google and Safari screenshots to latest releases o Can now select the browser to display the results or use the currently running Firefox o Can now hide the Options on the Tools menu o Removed links to the Advanced Tool which no longer exists o Migrated all gifs to CSS to help people with themes o Bug Fix: 'Send source' option was writing temp file to a folder which may not have had write permissions 5.5 (17th May 2009) ------------------- o Improved support for calling Linux versions of the desktop tool o Support for IE8, and FF3.5 screenshots added 5.4 (10th January 2009) ----------------------- o All code refactored to prevent namespace clashes with other extensions o Google Chrome added to the list of browsers for screenshots o All other screenshot browsers updated to the latest versions o Prevents uploading of source for screenshots o Updates to Italian and French locales 5.3.3 (25th August 2008) ------------------------ o Passwords are now masked on entry o Spurious characters removed from Authentication tab with Pro tool o Screenshots are no longer available with 'Send source' option 5.3 (29th June 2008) -------------------- o Support for all the new Advanced Tool options o Added missing Pro Tool options o Separated 'upload for screenshot' from 'validate web page source' o Can now validate individual protected pages using the page source 5.2 (15th April 2008) --------------------- o 'Show on success' option now on Validations tab. This allows page layout to be viewed even when no problems found 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 screenshots o Support for Safari 3.1 Windows screenshots 5.1 (21st March 2008) --------------------- o Support for JP, GB, PL, BR, ES, FR, IT locales o Reformatted so will work properly in different locales o Added German spell checking 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) 5.0 (27th January 2008) ----------------------- o Support for the new Advanced desktop tool to validate local/intranet pages with just one click o Support for running on Firefox 3.0b2 o Revamp of the Options dialog to improve useability o Internal refactoring to improve stability o Readied for support of WCAG v2 and HTML5 standards in future release 4.5 (4th December 2007) ----------------------- o Can now use the Basic desktop tool to validate local/intranet pages with one click o Support for running on Firefox 3.0b1 o Safari v3.0 for OS X screenshots 4.4 (9th October 2007) ---------------------- o Two new desktop tool options added to allow parameters to be stripped from links to prevent loops when validating a whole site o Corrected the version number displayed 4.3 (15th September 2007) ------------------------- o Better handling of desktop tool checkbox when desktop tool is not installed o Skip path option now supports regular expressions 4.2 (5th August 2007) --------------------- o Allow multi-browser screenshot selection for desktop tool users o Button to launch the desktop tool UI o Camino for OS X screenshots 4.1 (30th June 2007) -------------------- o Support for alternative suffix for mail attachments to help bypass fussy mail servers o Added Hide Results and Remote Links options in desktop tool section o Reorganised desktop tool section to make Options more compact 4.0 (12th May 2007) ------------------- o New branding o Tabs for validation options only appear only when necessary o New options for specifying output folder/file for desktop tool o Moved 'hide content' option to the desktop tool section 3.6 (19th February 2007) ------------------------ o Option to generate a short report o Removed Mozilla for OS X screenshots (too unstable) 3.5 (17th January 2007) ----------------------- o Passes cookies for current page to desktop tool to preserve sessions o Support for desktop tool Save Misspelt Words option 3.4 (8th December 2006) ----------------------- o Support for IE4.01 and IE5.01 screenshots o Support for small upgrades to other browser screenshots 3.3.1 (21st November 2006) -------------------------- o Bug Fix: Sometimes local files are not validated o Turns off status bar icon in a nicer way 3.3 (16th November 2006) ------------------------- o Validate individual frames through the context menu o New interactive authentication option for desktop tool users o Bug Fix: No longer resets the desktop tool path when click 'Defaults' 3.2.1 (6th November 2006) ------------------------- o Bug Fix: Toolbar button wasn't working 3.2 (29th October 2006) ---------------------- 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 o Full support for Mac and Linux versions of the desktop tool 3.1 (9th October 2006) ---------------------- o Bug Fix: Gave alert if Basic tool installed and the option to use the desktop tool is ticked o Added tooltips to Options dialog 3.0 (30th September 2006) ------------------------- o Support for Firefox 2.0 o New Mac screenshot options (desktop tool required) o New 1280x1024 resolution for screenshots o Automatically detects and launches the desktop tool for faster validation and many more options such as multi-page validation o New tab with many additional options for use with the desktop tool o Bug Fix: When click Validate on option page it didn't use any recent changes to the options 2.3 (11th September 2006) ------------------------- o Added support for validating local files and files behind firewalls (see documentation at http://www.totalvalidator.com/support/extension.html) o Options now available from the FF Extensions dialog o You can now validate directly from the Options dialog o Fixed synchronisation problems with Help->User interface options o Tested with 2.0beta 2.2 (23rd June 2006) -------------------- o Opera v9 screen shots supported o Opera v6 deprecated (setting auto-migrated to Opera v7) 2.1 (12th May 2006) ------------------ o If a web page has a lang or xml:lang atribute set it is only spell checked if this language is compatible with the language chosen for the spell check o New option to override this new feature and provide the old behaviour 2.0 (7th May 2006) ------------------ o Completely refactored internally o Screen shot resolutions and delay options added o An email address may be provided to run validations in the background o Option to switched status bar and context menu (rt mouse click) items on and off o New dedicated support page describing each option and a link there from Help tab 1.0 (1st Apr 2006) ------------------ o Initial release of extension. o Provides one-click validation of the page you are viewing from within Firefox, by sending the URL of the current page to the online service. o All five validations are available together with most of the advanced options from the website. o Toolbar button available. o The options may be set through a dialog accessed from the Firefox tools menu or rt mouse click on the status bar or toolbar icons.