What’s New : 2003 : Constantine Hannaher : Content

25 November 2003

With the restoration of the availability of the web site for Cyrillicization of software for Serbian customers, I can restore my original PNG-format banner suitably altered to display the new URL.

25 October 2003

After 3 months, I finished the roll of film in the Minolta Maxxum 700si, and was inspired to make some changes. Enjoy the new cover photo, the new dispatch, and new television journalist page.

The nasepismo.da.ru site seems to be gone, so I have removed the banner advertising the importance of Cyrillicizing Windows XP and link from the index page of this site. I was the eleventh hit in a Google search conducted in Serbian from an ISP in Serbia and Montenegro for the words nase pismo.

31 August 2003

My unauthorized imitation of the WAMALUG website has been completely gutted as my reconstruction of the actual WAMALUG website has caught up. All that remains is a .htaccess file to redirect requests to that folder to the one remaining explanatory page.

05 August 2003

Paramount Digital Entertainment rearranged its web site for Star Trek and changed the assortment of banners offered for linkage to startrek.com. Fairly routine handling of link rot at the Diversions page, you might think, but the images are not at the locations stated in the offered code. Replace startrek in the suggested HTML with html to get the image to display.

03 August 2003

In the past week I followed a web building tip at saila.com which I found via the comments at an article at evolt.org to improve the display of the unordered lists used as navigation at this webspace in Netscape Communicator. There are still people at work who cannot bear to use Microsoft Internet Explorer and continue to use the Netscape Communicator 4.75 installed on our workstations. There is even a colleague who continues to use an even earlier version of Netscape Communicator at home simply because it was installed upon the original sign-up with a free e-mail type of ISP.

20 June 2003

Now that the Unicode Hex Input keyboard utility is available to me inside BBEdit 7, I have replaced named entities with their Unicode equivalent. In Netscape Communicator 4.8 Macintosh, anyway, this replaces the ugly ’ with a right single quotation mark: ’ (U+2019). All that should remain are the named entities that are fundamental to the namespace: &, <, and >.

24 May 2003

With a new confidence inspired by the availability of Unicode keyboards in BBEdit 7, I have used some of the other keyboards in the Mac OS to replace named entities like é with a UTF character like é. It’s too bad I have no Macintosh font capable of displaying both Western European accented characters and Cyrillic.

09 May 2003

Links to check each individual page for compliance with XHTML and CSS now included in the footer.

08 May 2003

Ha! I am among the elite of the elite! My home page validates as XHTML 1.0 Strict. At least three pages of the rest of my site validate as XHTML 1.0 Strict. And now, thanks to Mark Pilgrim’s The Road to XHTML 2.0: MIME Types and the magic of .htaccess (I had to delete the RewriteBase line to avoid an Internal Server Error 500), I now serve these pages as application/xhtml+xml to user agents that accept them that way. I even changed the <META> to match and Internet Explorer 6 for Windows didn’t seem to notice. So… now what?

06 May 2003

I finally abandoned the garage. Every page at my own webspaces to which I link are XHTML-compliant even if I do not serve them with the application/xhtml+xml header.

01 May 2003

A major push to convert the last of the police vehicle photograph display pages and the whole of the photograph display pages for the construction of the AMC Hoffman Center should mean that the whole of the site is now converted to XHTML 1.0 Strict compliance and that I can delete all the files in the Photos folder at the server.

16 April 2003

It never ends. Corel has broken its longstanding page which listed the products for which downloads of patches were available, so the Software Upgrades page had to be updated.

09 April 2003

More link rot in the Q&A page, the Tools page, the two site maps (English and Serbian), and the 404 File Not Found error page located and corrected.

06 April 2003

As mentioned below, the photo galleries are the last aspects of the site to be converted to XHTML compliance. I have updated the links from pages in the series on Reporters and begun the series on Police Vehicles (preview the first three pages).

30 March 2003

A major effort has brought the totality of the pages of movie reviews up to XHTML compliance and the commentaries, spare as they might be, have caught up to the present. All of the links in the main navigation now lead to XHTML compliant pages. Only links from the Photographs menu remain in legacy format. But I have received persistent complaints only because of the lack of new writing, not the absence of new photographs.

27 March 2003

I discovered that the code for the eXTReMe Tracking utility had changed (when I established a free tracker for my webspace at Comcast) and with the disappearance of the name attribute the home page can validate to XHTML 1.0 Strict.

28 February 2003

I created a robots.txt file in an attempt to exclude search engine spiders from reading my imitation users group web site. It wouldn’t do for those pages to outrank the real thing.

14 February 2003

I finally figured out how to make the <q> inline element display as curly opening and closing quotes, both in English и на Српском . Accordingly, all instances of “ and ” in these pages have been replaced with <q> and </q>, respectively. Netscape Communicator 4 either does not understand the <q> tag, or the :before and :after classes, or generated content, or the selector on the lang value, so quotations are no longer marked for users of that browser.

06 February 2003

The message on the index page for users of Netscape Navigator 3 has been amended to note the fact that Unicode text and PNG images will not display in their choice of browser.

03 February 2003

The logo for junkbusters.com on the Diversions page was no longer loading from their website, so I’ve had to remove the reference to it.

14 January 2003

I found the latest Apple web badges and have included the blueberry version on the index and Tools pages.

09 January 2003

Shifted some of the styles from one file to another to make the unordered lists I use for the navigational menus at the top and bottom of each new page display horizontally rather than vertically in Netscape Communicator 4.x. Also moved the sub-menus on the Tools and Diversions pages from the navigational menu at the top of the page to inside the page. At least one user of Netscape Communicator was dutifully clicking on one of those sub-menus and complaining that my site didn’t work. Netscape Communicator does not understand links to a tag by its id= attribute, so it’s the program that doesn’t work rather than the site. Sigh. Some people just don’t get it. Netscape Communicator also just doesn’t understand a lot of named entities, either. Decided to move the menu by year for What’s New and Diversions, too.

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What’s New : 2003