You cannot register JChecker2.0 with the registration code of JChecker1.0. You need to upgrade your registration code via our online-registration site.
http://www.matsumoto.co.jp/
The upgrade fee is 1,000 Japanese Yen(about US$10). And the users who registered JChecker1.0 after September 15th, 1999 (Serial Number is greater than 11470 ) can upgrade to JChecker2.0 with free charge.
For more information, please see the file "Registration".
File Compatibility
(1) The HTML files made with JChecker1.0 are full compatible with JChecker2.0.
(2) Both "Tag Dictionary" and "Attribute Dictionary" of JChecker1.0 are full compatible with JChecker2.0. But we recommend to use new Tag Dictionary which has been revised considerably in JChecker2.0.
Coexistence of JChecker1.0 and 2.0
There may be no major problems if you install both JChecker1.0 and JChecker2.0 in your system. But when you double click the JChecker document icon, older version of JChecker may happen to start up. So we recommend to delete older version of JChecker1.0 from your system.
Major improvements in JChecker2.0
General
- The editor program has been made extensive improvements and supports searching and replacing functions.
- Supports AppleScript. You can write such a script which automatically check the validation of all HTML files in a folder.
- The data of Internet Explorer 4.0 and 5.0 are added to the "Tag Dictionary". And many improvements in the validation checking are also introduced.
- The beautifying functions are more refined. And the minimization of the HTML text is newly supported.
- More stable and more reliable. Many bugs have been fixed.
- And many other improvements.
Editor
- The editor program has been completely re-written and becomes easier to use.
- Supports searching and replacing functions.
- Supports 28 of character code sets which are using in Internet. Ex. Western, Japanese, Chinese, Turkish, UTF-7, UTF-8 and so on.
- Able to specify the max line width in the editor preference dialog. You can also specify variable line width linking with the window width.
- Supports multiple Undos.
- Able to open the file which is in use with other application.
- Able to specify the initial action when the program starts up. You can choose the action among "Do Nothing", "Make New HTML" and "Open File Dialog".
-Supports the directory menu which will popup when the window title is clicked with command key down.
- Fixed a bug that coloring goes wrong when the string "</" exists in the element of CDATA tags such as <SCRIPT>.
- Able to synchronize the coloring settings with the editor "Jedit3.0" in the coloring preferences.
Checking
- The data of Internet Explorer 4.0 and 5.0 are added to "Tag Dictionary". These data are based on the DTDs which are composed by Mr. k16 (another HTML-lint).
- In the message preferences, you can specify each error and warning message whether it should be checked or not.
- The checking results will be reported with three kinds of sounds, "Error Sound", "No Error Sound" and "Perfect Sound". You can also change these sounds in the checker preferences.
- Supports the explanation window. When you double click an error message, the explanation window on the error will popup.
- When the checking is invoked from the word services, the matching between the "charset" value in HTML and the character set of data will not checked, because the character set of data from the word services is always the default character set of your system.
- Supports to check the machine dependent characters which may vary their meanings depending on using machine or font. In shift-JIS character set, the codes from 0x8450 to 0x889E and from 0xEB40 to 0xEFFC vary their meanings depending on the using machine and font.
- Fixed a bug that an error message was produced when the string "</" existed in the element of CDATA tags such as <SCRIPT>.
- Able to save the error and warning messages to a file whose creator can be specified in the checker preferences.
- When the DOCTYPE declaration exists in the HTML, the validation check will be conducted according to the HTML version of DOCTYPE. But the checking version of NN and IE specified the popup menus will not be affected by the DOCTYPE declaration.
Beautifying
- The minimization of HTML text is newly supported. It will strip redundant white spaces ( spaces, tabs and line breaks) and make your HTML text more compact. Usually the minimization will reduce the size of HTML text for 10%. You can also revert the minimized text to more comprehensible from by the beautifying menu. The minimization will not be conducted for the contents of PRE, SCRIPT, XMP, LISTING, PLAINTEXT, STYLE and SERVER.
- Fixed a bug that redundant one-byte spaces are inserted sometimes when HTML is beautified.
- The character case conversion will not be conducted in the tags that begin with "<!" such as "<!--" and "<!DOCTYPE".
- The tag </TD> will be appended to the end of the line in stead of inserting a line break before the tag </TD>. By this modification, the table layout of slice objects made with "Macromedia Fireworks" will not be destroyed by the beautifying.
AppleScript
- Supports standard AppleScript events of open, save, revert, select, set and get.
- Supports original AppleScript events of check, beautify and minimize.
- Supports document properties as follows.
get contents of document 1
get data size of document 1
get errorCount of document 1
get warningCount of document 1
get errorInfo of document 1
- Supports the application property "sound" which controls the ON/OFF of the result sound of checking.
set sound to false
get sound
- Suppports the application property "autoCheck" which controls the ON/OFF of the initial checking when a window opens.
set autoCheck to false
get autoCheck
- Bundles a sample AppleScript droplet "CheckAll" which checks the validation of all the HTML files in the dropped folder.
Others
- Support Navigation Service.
- Updated the contents of URL when the menu "JChecker Banner" is selected.
