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History

13th of November, 2004

6.1a5
Reworked the printer CSS file for better readability and in order to correct a few errors.
6.1a4
Set the name anchor appearing directly after the skip content link to display 'none' in order to avoid it being rendered.
6.1a3
Removed the word 'top' from the title of the first page, as this was seen as confusing by users.
6.1a2
Corrected a bug that lead to a broken link in the contact document.
6.1a1
Increase font size of the text underneath images on the first page from .75em to .90em.
6.1a0
Increased the contrast of in-active menu items.

28th of October, 2004

6.0
Upgraded the site to version 6.0 and added a news item regarding the new design and structure.

22nd of October, 2004

6.0b13
Added an error document for "Service Unavailable"

19th of October, 2004

6.0b12
Added the article on siteSifter.
6.0b11
Added a stylesheet for printing.
6.0b10
Removed border-attributes from /help/wcag10.html
6.0b9
Corrected a link on /about/.
6.0b8
Added a specific stylesheet for handheld computers.
6.0b7
Wrapped even linked images in the hyperLink class.
6.0b6
Added an A around the menubar header, so that browsers which do not manage to link to ids can still get to the menu.
6.0b5
Completed /help/browsers.html. A total of 29 tests have been included.

18th of October, 2004

6.0b4
Added a first level header (h1) to /services/training/.
6.0b3
Added a first level header (h1) to /services/development/.
6.0b2
Increased the maximum width for the 'motto' class from 20em to 25.
6.0b1
Updated /help/ to reflect that accesskey "4" now has been assigned to the newly completed search function.
6.0b0
Revision 6 of the corporate site moved to beta-status. From this point onwards, a detailed development history will be made public.

3rd of September, 2004

6.0a0
Begun redevelopment. Please note that the history for revision 5.* of the site has been omitted for internal reasons.

1st of December, 2003

5.0a0
Begun redevelopment.

11th of September, 2003

4.0.60
Set the media attribute for included stylesheets to "all" so that Netscape's 4-series get non-styled content. This is due to said user-agents poor handling of stylesheets.

13th of August, 2003

4.0.59
Added references to Wmake to the sitemaps.

9th of August, 2003

4.0.58
Changed the background to a more pleasant colour.
4.0.57
Corrected a bug in the way stylesheet files for printing were linked.

10th of July, 2003

4.0.56
Added a Opera 7.2-specific stylesheet.

1st of July, 2003

4.0.55
Updated the accessibility audit to reflect recent changes on the website.

19th of June, 2003

4.0.54
Removed the background-color: inherit; from all paragraph rulesets. This ensures that the underline on links appear in Gecko-based browsers. I feel too punch-drunk to even think about reporting this bug.
4.0.53
Changed the visited colour of links to a somewhat lighter grey colour to make it less annoying whilst reading articles, whilst still standing out enough even for people with low vision.
4.0.52
Removed the first line indent on paragraphs. I find it less attractive and user-friendly that I first envisioned.

16th of March, 2003

4.0.51
Added a maximum width and automatic margins to all definition lists.

8th of March, 2003

4.0.50
Added an explicit monospace declaration in the CSS ruleset for PRE to avoid the idiocyncrasies in how Mozilla 1.2b+ and Phoenix 0.5+ handle such constructs.

25th of February, 2003

4.0.49
Adjusted the maximum width of paragraphs from 72 ex to 74. This makes for better line lenghts, in my opinion.
4.0.48
Increased the line height of paragraphs from 1.4 to 1.5 in order to accommodate the new style of the CODE tags.
4.0.47
Removed 12 pixels from the nested menu items on the main navigation. It took a WHOLE lot of horizontal space.
4.0.46
Added the article on specifying Content-Type for XHTML documents.
4.0.45
Added a articleReference rule block to widen the gap between each article presentation.
4.0.44
Changed the suggested rendering of normal P-tags to a more classical one with indented first line and no top margin.
4.0.43
Changed the stylesheet definition for the DD-element so that it is now slightly indented and with more room underneath.
4.0.42
Added styles for the HR-element.
4.0.41
Added advanced CSS trickery to insert content before and after BLOCKQUOTE-tags and before the PRE-tag.
4.0.40
Changed, slightly, the style of the CODE-element on a suggestion from David Dorward.
4.0.39
Added some more elaborate styling for the PRE-element.

29th of January, 2003

4.0.38
Added a stylesheet for Opera 7 (final) (Windows).
4.0.37
Corrected an error in the description of the language selection menu under /languageCode/help/index.html

27th of January, 2003

4.0.36
Added - thankyou David - a change in background colour for links when they have focus. This will aid in identifying links visually when using the tab key.

26th of January, 2003

4.0.35
Corrected an error in /sv/help/index.html - I had used the attribute lang in place of the correct xml:lang.
4.0.34
Updated /en/help/about.html to reflect changes in the URI of the WCAG documentation.
4.0.33
Added UK Goverment standard access key configuration to the alternative menu.
4.0.32
Changed the system generating menus so that these now get assigned the proper access keys.
4.0.31
Rewrote /language/help/index.html to reflect the new use of access keys.
4.0.30
Indented every list item on two or more levels just a little - 18 pixels to be exact.
4.0.29
Removed the bottom border from news headers.
4.0.28
Replaced the language selection with appropriate flags representing language-associations. This gives them more focus, and makes the functionality easier to find.
4.0.27
Moved the site version number to after the menu. This gives the menu more room and more focus, and works better in browsers which linearize the content.

25th of January, 2003

4.0.26
Changed the presentation of the main menu. For graphical browsers the current document is now marked with a graphical symbol, whilst text or similar systems will have a short, explanatory, text.
4.0.25
Changed the presentation of the language options. There really is no need to present a link to an alternative document in the same language which is allready current. Added styles to match.
4.0.24
Changed the structure of the news items to a list, which makes more sense semantically. Added styles to match.
4.0.23
Changed the way news articles are linked. Now the "News" header on the front page links to the area itself, whilst the blurp links to the actual news item.
4.0.22
Changed the version numbering scheme, starting with 4.0.22. This will be more noticable internally, and should matter little for the general public.
4.21
Linked the logo to the root, as per common use of the thing.
4.20
Changed occurrences of "Read more" as link texts - and their Swedish and Norwegian equivalents - to something that makes sense out of context per WAI WCAG 1.0 checkpoint 13.1.
4.19
Removed the gradient background on all right hand elements. The change is universal.
4.18
Changed the background colour of each right hand element to white. This change is common to all CSS files.

24th of January, 2003

4.17
Replace the old grey logo with a variety made in white. This goes better with the new overall look.

5th of January, 2003

4.16
Added a new section - "News" - designed to hold press releases and other news items related to Greytower.

4th of January, 2003

4.15
Alterned the styles for the very first paragraph of each front page, so that there is a smaller gap - visually - between the newsbubble and the content.
4.14
Changed the borders of the news "bubble", to make them more distinct.

6th of November, 2002

4.13
Added a stylesheet for IE/Mac 5.21

22nd of October, 2002

4.12
Slightly reduced the size of fonts for users of Windows MSIE 6.0, in defence against said browsers insanely huge default fonts. A tad evil, I agree.
4.11
Corrected numerous errors in the Netscape 4-specific stylesheet-file.
4.10
Corrected a spelling-error on the Swedish part of the site.
4.09
Added an exclusion for the secure site in the robots.txt file.
4.08
Added a Konqueror 3.* specific stylesheet.

17th of October, 2002

4.07
Updated various items on the secure site.
4.06
Added greytower.ico in order to reduce the amount of "file not found" messages in the error-log.
4.05
Corrected a spelling error on /en/help/, courtesy of J.M.
4.04
Added a robots.txt file.
4.03
Removed obsolete references to Javascript source files.
4.02
Corrected a spelling error regarding the word "copyright" (copyrigth), courtesy of G.C.
4.01
Changed link titles so that they match the content they link to, courtesy of G.C.

21th of August, 2002

4.0
Froze development and launched the new site.

20th of August, 2002

4.0a62
Changed the background-color property for all headers to transparent to remove a grey shadow previously unnoticed when testing on LCD monitors.
4.0a61
Changed the MSIE 5 -series specific stylesheet to reflect changes for version 4.0 of the site.
4.0a60
Corrected several grammatical errors.

19th of August, 2002

4.0a59
Updated the meta keywords and descriptions fields.
4.0a58
Updated /sv/contact.html to bring it in line with the English and Norwegian versions.
4.0a57
Added the hreflang attribute to all links. This complies with WCAG 1.0, checkpoint 4.1, and makes it explicitly clear when a user passes from one linguistic alternative of the site to another.
4.0a56
Added the abbr attribute to all table headers. This complies with WCAG 1.0, checkpoint 5.6, and may be of used to future assistive technologies when making sense of tables.
4.0a55
Added the summary attribute to all tables. This complies with WCAG 1.0, checkpoint 5.5, and adds further information to aid visitors at our site.
4.0a54
Added the accesskey attribute to the sitemap links in the alternative menu. This will ensure that a user can always press a system-specific shortcut key + 's' to get to the sitemap.
4.0a53
Updated the alternative menu on /en/, /no/ and /sv/ to reflect changes in the site structure.
4.0a52
Added Norwegian and Swedish variants acting as place-holders for documents only available in English. These contain short descriptions and a link to the proper place.

17th of August, 2002

4.0a51
Grouped the language and navigation links in the right hand column using the map element.
4.0a50
Added a link in order to skip over the right hand menu and go directly to the content. This link is visible only for browsers which do not support stylesheets, and are in line with guideline 13.6 of WCAG 1.0.

15th of August, 2002

4.0a49
Changed the Opera 3-series specific stylesheet to reflect changes for version 4.0 of the site.

14th of August, 2002

4.0a48
Added a stylesheet for WebTV 2.6, and changed various stylesheet properties to make the visual appearance more in line with the reference browser.
4.0a47
Tested Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0, and changed various stylesheet properties to make the visual appearance more in line with the reference browser.

13th of August, 2002

4.0a46
Tested Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0sp1a, and changed various stylesheet properties to make the visual appearance more in line with the reference browser.
4.0a45
Changed all occurrences of lang to xml:lang for the Norwegian and Swedish sections of the site.

31st of July, 2002

4.0a44
Reduced the font size of sup tags. The change is global for all stylesheets.
4.0a43
Altered the border around example code blocks slightly, to make it looked as if it was carved in rock. Very cute.
4.0a42
Updated the master CSS file to remove old styles, and to clean up duplicates which made specifying pre blocks very awkward.

29th of July, 2002

4.0a41
Increased the left margin on all ordered and unordered lists for Opera 6-series (Linux).

28th of July, 2002

4.0a40
Changed the positioning of the right hand column from fixed to absolute for Netscape 6.01 (Windows).
4.0a39
Added background-attachment: fixed ; for Opera 6-series browsers (Windows), to ensure that the background in the right hand column stays put.
4.0a38
Changed the margins on the various elements of the right hand column for Opera 5- and 6-series browsers (Windows) only, to avoid the elements being rendered more-or-less on top of each other.
4.0a37
Added background-attachment: fixed ; for Opera 5-series browsers (Windows), to ensure that the background in the right hand column stays put.
4.0a36
Added background-color: inherit ; and color: inherit ; to the h2.newsHeader declaration to avoid a bug in Opera 5.10 where the default value was not transparent.
4.0a35
Added a separate CSS file for Amaya 5.3.
4.0a34
Added a separate CSS file for Amaya 4.3.2.
4.0a33
Added a larger (4em) left margin to all ordered and unordered lists for MSIE 6.0.
4.0a32
Adjusted the positioning of the right hand column for MSIE 6.0 from fixed to absolute.

19th of July, 2002

4.0a31
Updated the menu generating code so that the sitemap is now constructed dynamically in the same manner as the main menu. This ensures that both are correctly and identically updated.
4.0a30
Corrected a bug in the menu generating code which prevented the remake of entire sections of the site because of accumulating menu code ...
4.0a29
Reversed the position of the Login and Network menu entries.
4.0a28
Converted use of the lang attribute to xml:lang
4.0a27
Updated the alternative, text-only, menu to reflect changes in the site structure.
4.0a26
Added a thin border line to the right and bottom sides of example code blocks.
4.0a25
Moved the header of all example code blocks in two (2) pixels from the left edge of the containing block.
4.0a24
Moved - in visual browsers supporting CSS 2 - the canvas and right column four (4) pixels in from the top, left, and right, instead of the old two (2). This makes for a more open, clear, layout.
4.0a23
Changed the max-width value from 80ex to 70ex for paragraphs under the impression that 70 x (height of 'x') might be an more sound way of indicating number of characters per line.

16th of July, 2002

4.0a22
Moved the Help link so that it is now the last link in the menu.
4.0a21
Added language codes to the language selection links and texts.
4.0a20
Added a brief place-keeping document to /no/help/history.html and /sv/help/history.html
4.0a19
Added a descriptive text to the language selection menu. The change is consistent between all three language trees.
4.0a18
Corrected grammar in /en/help/history.html and /en/help/negotiate.html

15th of July, 2002

4.0a17
Added a document describing how Greytower.net does content negotiation on language.
4.0a16
Corrected a CSS error which gave the main menu a grey and not blue background.
4.0a15
Corrected a number of warnings given by the CSS validator due to missing color and background-color settings.

14th of July, 2002

4.0a14
Completed the document describing the Greytower.net relation to WAIs WCAG 1.0, and what we have done about the various issues.
4.0a13
Added a distinctive styling to abbr and acronym elements.
4.0a12
Increased the overall line height to 1.4 for readability.
4.0a11
Added server-side redirects so that requests for language specific versions of the WAI site audit and the browser test document is sent to the English version of the site.

13th of July, 2002

4.0a10
Added code so that all browsers which report that they accept XML and XHTML will be served data with the proper (application/xhtml+xml) content-type.
4.0a9
Added redirects from /no/help/history.html and /sv/help/history.html to /en/help/history.html.
4.0a8
Corrected a spelling error: 'Archive' is not Norwegian for 'Arkiv'
4.0a7
Added information (/en/) on selecting fonts in Opera 6.02 (Linux)
4.0a6
Corrected a bug in the Master CSS file which sent all ordered lists immediately preceded by a 3rd level header minus 2em to the left ...
4.0a5
Added an index-page for the services/ section.
4.0a4
Collected the various Greytower e-mail addresses in the Contact-document so they are easier to find.
4.0a3
Corrected a bug in the menu generating code. Now a sub tree should be displayed if the currently active document is the root of that tree.

11th of July, 2002

4.0a2
Added documents describing the site's issues in regard to the WAI, as well as a list of current test browsers.
4.0a1
Moved about and history into the Help-section of the site.
4.0a0
Began work on a new, re-designed and re-structured, version of the Greytower site.

30th of June, 2002

3.2.25
Added AddLanguage directives to the various htaccess-files so that each document is served with the proper Content-Language HTTP header.

19th of June, 2002

3.2.24
Changed the global stylesheets, adding a small header and some background to example code.

11th of June, 2002

3.2.23
Replaced the three individual language selection icons with one client-side image map. This will prevent the menu from falling apart in browsers that do not support CSS 2 positioning.
3.2.22
Added an explicit top to the siteVersionNumber rule set for MSIE/Win 4-series.
3.2.21
Added an explicit margin-bottom to the newsHeader rule set for MSIE/Win 4-series.
3.2.20
Added an explicit padding-top to the newsBubble rule set for MSIE/Win 4-series.
3.2.19
Changed the width value of the Canvas rule set to 80% for MSIE/Win 4-series.
3.2.18
Changed the left value of the mainMenu rule set to 88% for MSIE/Win 4-series.
3.2.17
Set an explicit left of 88% for the languageSelection rule set in MSIE/Win 4-series to mimic the layout desired.
3.2.16
Added an explicit margin-left of 1em to the siteVersionNumber rule set for Opera 3.* browsers.
3.2.15
Added an explicit width to the newsBubble rule set for Opera 3.* browsers.
3.2.14
Updated the master CSS file so that the language bar is moved just a little bit in and down.

10th of June, 2002

3.2.13
Changed the 'active menu' indicator on client/internal pages so that they reflect a status of 'login', not 'home'.

6th of June, 2002

3.2.12
Translated /no/achive/index.html
3.2.11
Spell checked all pages, and corrected numerous errors.
3.2.10
Changed the title values on all pages to something more informative.

4th of June, 2002

3.2.09
Changed the value of max-width in #Canvas from 90ex to 90em. This resulted in the common height bug in Opera to disappear ...
3.2.08
Updated the MSIE 4, 5 and 6 CSS files to cover the added newsBubble section which uses the, by MSIE, unsupported max-width property.
3.2.07
Added customized CSS files for Konqueror 1.9.8 and 2.2.1 in order to correct for some deficiencies in how these browsers handle the width property.

3rd of June, 2002

3.2.06
Corrected the linking of the History page in various languages.
3.2.05
Added an essay on the use of browser detection for custom CSS handling.
3.2.04
Changed the background color to the slightly-less-than-white RGB color 248, 248, 248.
3.2.03
Added the first-page "News" area.
3.2.02
Moved the canvas a little bit downwards in response to user feedback.

30th of May, 2002

3.2.01
Added a page on copyrights.
3.2.00
Added <LINK> based relationship structures to all pages.
3.1.00
Separated the Articles section in Archive, and it in turn into Articles, Links, and Documents.
3.0.00
Launched a new, slightly re-structured and re-designed version of the site in order to correct for known problems with accessibility.

25th of April, 2002

2.0.25
Corrected several spelling mistakes on the English version of the site. Thank you, my friend :)

3rd of April, 2002

2.0.24
Restructured the physical directory layout underlying the various cgi scripts to increase security and portability.

30th of March, 2002

2.0.23
Changed the suggested front of all paragraphs to Trebuchet MS, alternatively the user's sans serif font.
2.0.22
Added a printer specific stylesheet. This is common to all browsers.

28thof March, 2002

2.0.21
Updated Opera-specific stylesheet code.
2.0.20
Created MSIE 6 specific parts of the new rules for styles, to avoid limitations in said browser.
2.0.19
Updated the CSS rule set to reflect the need for new styles after some reorganization of the secure site. The changes are universal.
2.0.18
Corrected a bug in the linking from the secure site. Now all menu links go to the correct, open, part of the site.
2.0.17
Corrected a bug in the template handling for secure pages, so that their layout now matches open parts of the site.
2.0.16
Corrected a bug in the stylesheet rules siteVersionNumber that prevented required display of the site version number.
2.0.15
Corrected the layout of new elements for Opera 6.0tp3 (Linux).

26thof March, 2002

2.0.14
Grouped the main navigational links in accordance with WCAG 1.0, Priority 3 (AAA), Checkpoint 13.6.
2.0.13
Added the accesskey '?' to the Help-link, and added a brief description of how to use such keys to both that and the site map-link.
2.0.12
Re-coded the "Help" functionality for a more consistent look and feel, and to ensure that the help symbol remains on screen at all times.
2.0.11
Re-coded the 'Turn off menu' functionality for more consistent look and feel.

11thof March, 2002

2.0.10
The <title> element was set, more often than not, to a wholly unproductive value. Corrected.
2.0.09
When viewed on a system/monitor in only grayscale or black & white, the language currently in effect was not obvious due to the lack of color. This is a violation of WCAG 1.0, Priority 1, Checkpoint 2.1 and has been corrected as of 2.0.09.
2.0.08
The language choice images had been incorrectly coded, and was re-sized client side. The problem has been corrected, and the images cleaned up.
2.0.07
Restructured the entire site to ensure maximum security.
2.0.06
Corrected several cases of missing xml:lang attributes.
2.0.05
The language specific pages had the title attribute of the language selection link for the language in effect set to "". Corrected.

9thof March, 2002

2.0.04
Corrected a missing CSS file that prevented access in Netscape.

8thof March, 2002

2.0.03
Corrected a bug in the visual presentation of the menu control icon on Mozilla 0.9.7 (Linux).
2.0.02
Changed the coloring of the underline on links; a normal, non-visited and un-hovered link now should be #3CB871, turning to #CD5C5C on hover, and #000000 on visit. The change is universal.
2.0.01
Added a version number to the site, for easy reference.

7thof March, 2002

2.0.00
Launched the new version of Greytower.net

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