What's New
Version 11 contains major new improvements:
- Improved support for HTML5
- Improved support for CSS3
- Improved accessibility checking
- WAI-ARIA support
- Improved checking (syntax, SEO, links)
- Improved configurability
- Improved speed and efficiency
- Improved Batch Wizard (Pro+)
- Many other improvements, updates, and refinements
Tip: To update, use the Help->Check for Updates option in the editor.
Version 10.9931 (v11.00 BETA 4A) (released 2011-10-06)
- Editor: New Links->Export Links to Text (bad) in the Results Window's popup menu that only shows the error/warning links
- Editor: New menu and toolbar icons for a better look
- Editor: Square orange icons are shown in front of document names in the tabs for unsaved documents
- Editor: Other interface improvements
- Integrated Web Browser: Will now render pages in IE9 mode (if IE9 is installed)
- Integrated Web Browser: New 'Quick Doc' menu for the integrated web browser to quickly move or dock the integrated web browser
- Integrated Web Browser: New 'Silent Mode' option to suppress dialogs
- Batch Wizard: XML output support (enterprise edition only)
- Batch Wizard: Optionally check for the same titles and the same meta descriptions across different URLs
- Batch Wizard: The wait time before each URL request can now be set in milliseconds instead of seconds for finer control
- Batch Wizard: New "Append message IDs to the message text" option in the Report Options->Report Format page
- Validator: Improved HTML5 and CSS3 support and syntax checking
- Validator: Added WAI-ARIA support
- Validator: Can now specify a "user functions" file that contains user functions for powerful customization possibilities
- Validator: Integration with JSLint by Douglas Crockford (new window), and new "JSLint messages only" validation mode
- Validator: Generates an improved document structure view; implied end tags are now marked with "(i)", and other improvements; to see this, make sure the "Document Structure" window is visible in the editor
- Validator: Improved input control for specifying excluded search engine keywords (now uses a memo control)
- Validator: Other improvements to the Validator Engine Options Dialog Box
- Validator: New built-in attribute values: (int-non-neg-html5), and more
- Validator: New tag name programming language functions: isAttValueEmpty(), matchRegEx(), replaceStringCase(), replaceStringNoCase(), and more
- Validator: Recognizes "tel:" protocol
- Validator: Many other improvements and updates to the validator messages
- CSS Validator: New /*cseignore*/ and /*/cseignore*/ comments for CSS documents to excluding checking of sections of CSS
- CSS Validator: Now checks the "box-shadow" property (it has been re-added to the specification)
- CSS Validator: Improved CSS3 support
- Link Checker: Support for file:// protocol
- Tools: Improvements to the Quick Quote Attribute Value tool & addition of the onTool_QuoteAttVal_Value() function
- General: General performance and efficiency improvements throughout
- General: New functions are used to uppercase & lowercase text, which should fix issues with certain alphabets like the Cyrillic alphabet
- General: Updated & improved documentation
- General: Various updated components