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The Code Style site has evolved by gradual refinement and accumulation of features and content. This review is part of a fully backdated site log and archive that sheds light on when, why and how particular features were implemented.
This log is sometimes updated several times per week, sometimes with a long overdue backlog of items. Many log entries refer to the Code Style Java package that delivers the servlet services and utilities used to manage this site.
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Reverse chronology
29th August 2002
Updated the standfirst and top Anchor Points sections of the site statistics page.
28th August 2002
Corrected the example font element colour in the FAQ: Cascading Style Sheets to #CC0000 and added a further test case to the font sampler stylesheet and Mac test page for the VT100 font.
26th August 2002
Amended the generic Dublin Core metadata include files to use recommended case for element qualifiers, and removed some qualifiers that are not officially sanctioned. Reduced DC.Subject.Classification to just DC.Subject, changed case of spatial and temporal qualifiers to lower case DC.Coverage.spatial and DC.Coverage.temporal, and medium qualifier to DC.Format.medium. Corrected DC.Author in the "no robots" include file to DC.Creator and extended DC.Format to DC.Format.medium and the DC.Language value to en-GB.
24th August 2002
Re-wrote the ViewSource servlet class to use File access rather than a URLConnection because this class only supports HTTP 1.0 and does not resolve virtual hosts as required. Re-instated links to ViewSource in the Javascript FAQ and DOM1 visibility menu FAQ.
21th August 2002
Wrote a first draft XHTML to RDF XSLT to extract Dublin Core meta elements from standard Code Style pages.
20th August 2002
Added a JServ classpath answer to the FAQ: Java & servlets.
Servlet containers
18th August 2002
Added an answer to a new question on presentational markup to the FAQ: Cascading Style Sheets page, and updated the Bobby link on the Anchor Points: Site Manager page to its new host at Watchfire.
Cascading Style Sheets
8th August 2002
Finished testing and refinement of the new ViewSource servlet class with more detailed Javadoc comments on the main features and program logic. Also produced an optimised version of the FontSampler servlet that uses a StringBuffer to concatenate the page output using the append(String) method.
Finished the new FAQ: Java & servlets and added final comments to the script file for the new timeout question in the Javascript FAQ. Completed new questions for the FAQ: Cascading Style Sheets page and finished a first draft article on the optimisation of documents for search engine indexing.
Java I/O
Java compiler
Javascript "how to"
4th August 2002
Created a first draft JAXP servlet for generic processing of XML documents with XSLT and tested with draft documents offline.
Added a FAQ: Java & servlets link to the FAQ boxout menu and latest questions to the Javascript FAQ menu box.
3rd August 2002
Added an Amazon USA affiliates acknowledgement to the main Anchor Points: Recommended books section and finished the top referrals listing for the site statistics page.
Previously on Code Style
These backdated pages record detailed changes to the Code Style Web site since July 2000, when development first got underway. Some pages may refer to documents or features that have since changed or are no longer part of the site, but the archive is checked to ensure there are no dead links.
Site log, origins to present
For a summary overview, see the annotated site log contents.
