Version 8.1.1
1 July 2004
* When you execute the Update Duplicate Web Folder Contents command or the Synchronize Duplicate Web Folder command, the (restored) resources are removed automatically.
* When you execute the Synchronize Duplicate Web Folder command, a hint to optimize certain files is not given if these files reside in an excluded folder.
* Fixed a cosmetic error in the About window.
* Put the version number on the main window.

Version 8.1
4 June 2004
* Introduced a 'Safe Mode' option that prevents cosmetic changes in web pages that do not fully comply with the W3C rules. Use this option only if you need it because the optimizing process will run about 60% slower. The 'Restore Lost Space' option has been removed because it is not required any more. If you did not use this option in the past, you do not need to use Safe Mode now.
* Added the option to qualify URLs, i.e. put a missing trailing slash after a directory URL and replace any occurrence of '&amp;' in a URL with '&'. Works now also for script code.
* The current Optimizer Output path is now visible on the Main Window.
* When optimizing your entire web folder without Smart Handling, the 'Preparing' stage is skipped if after a first run nothing has changed in your web folder.
* Comments that start with '<!--[' are no longer removed.
* Fixed a number of minor bugs.
* Revamped the program's icon.

Version 8.0.4
17 April 2004
* Added the ability to access a folder outside the current web folder.

Version 8.0.3
14 April 2004
* Fixed a bug that caused that a login name was not found if that name contains special characters.

Version 8.0.2
10 April 2004
* Fixed an old bug that had re-entered in version 8, which could corrupt script code.

Version 8.0.1
8 April 2004
* Fixed a bug that gobbled up required white space in some rare cases.

Version 8.0
5 April 2004
* HTML-Optimizer is now 'Unicode-savvy' and can work with MacRoman or UTF-8 files, even web pages with Japanese characters (double-byte characters). Default is Western MacRoman.
* Added the ability to view the optimized web page from within the program.
* Added the ability to hide/show the Main Window while the program is busy optimizing.
* Added Logs to display the results after executing the Update Directory, Update Contents or Synchronize Duplicate Web Folder commands.
* Fixed a bug that caused that percentage values of attributes to be randomly replaced by a bracket character when ASP code was being optimized.

Version 7.9.2
29 January 2004
* Fixed an error that caused a delay of several seconds - up to half a minute -  when turning on Smart Handling for a large web folder.

Version 7.9.1
23 December 2003
* Fixed a bug that was introduced by the previous version and that could corrupt 2-byte characters, e.g. Japanese.
* Fixed a bug that caused that file names longer than 31 characters could not be handled.

Version 7.9
18 November 2003
* Added the ability to optimize ASP script code.
* Drastically improved the speed of removing multiple white space when you are using a non-Western OS, e.g. Japanese.
* Fixed a bug that inadvertently removed \n characters from PHP code.

Version 7.8.2
23 October 2003
* Improved the layout of the Main Window.
* Fixed a bug that could cause optimized web pages in the duplicate web folder to be overwritten by the original pages when executing the Update Contents or Synchronize Duplicate web Folder command.
* Fixed a bug that caused that the countdown timer in the Register Reminder continued with negative numbers when the RR window was not kept in the foreground.

Version 7.8.1
15 October 2003
* Fixed a bug that could cause an infinite loop error when encoding email addresses.

Version 7.8
2 October 2003
* Added the ability to drag the contents of the current Log - not the History Log -  to the desktop or a text editor's window (if the font type is non-proportional, e.g. Courier, the columns are lined up).
* Added the option to restore lost white space.
* Improved removing single line comments from script code (dotted lines like //------- are now also removed).
* Fixed a bug that changed the duplicate web folder name from uppercase to lowercase when using any of the Update or Synchronize commands from the Extra menu.
* Fixed a bug that caused all files and folders in the duplicate web folder to be deleted when executing the Synchronize Duplicate Web Folder menu command ( the Update Contents menu command could restore all, though).
* Fixed a bug that could move images in tables over one pixel.

Version 7.7.1
10 September 2003
* Added the option to encode email addresses to protect these from spam harvesters and put this in place of the option to qualify URLs.
* Improved the layout of the Preferences window.
* Fixed a bug that removed space after colons in PHP code.

Version 7.7
30 August 2003
* Added the option to automatically check for an update of the program.
* Fixed a bug that could corrupt PHP code.
* Fixed some minor bugs related to PHP optimizing.

Version 7.6.2
22 August 2003
* Added a Help button to the 'Enter Code' window.
* Wrote in the ReadMe that a single user license is valid for max. 2 computers.

Version 7.6.1
15 August 2003
* Fixed a bug that caused a wrong result when checking tags in xml files.
* Fixed a bug that could corrupt css code.

Version 7.6
22 July 2003
* Built by a new compiler, prepared for Panther.
* Safeguarded by a unique program identification code.
* The user can adjust column widths in the Log.

Version 7.5.1
26 June 2003
* Fixed a bug that could corrupt PHP code.
* The option to remove comments from script code now includes shell-style ("#") comments.

Version 7.5
19 June 2003
* Fixed a security issue.

Version 7.4
31 May 2003
* Reliable optimizing of JavaScript (.js) and VisualBasicScript (.vbs) files. Previous versions could corrupt code in certain cases.

Version 7.3
(never published)

Version 7.2
15 February 2003
* Improved the optimizer engine that handles script code, e.g. JavaScript.

Version 7.1.1
8 February 2003
* Added a tip about <NOOP> </NOOP> tags to the Tips window.
* Fixed a bug that could corrupt script code when adding Alt attributes.
* Added a warning for files in your web folder that have names longer than 31 characters.

Version 7.1
25 January 2003
* Offers a choice between date+time sensitive and current date sensitive Smart Handling.
* Added a Tips window that appears at startup.

Version 7.0
21 December 2002
* The program has been simplified so that it's easier to use and better fits within our range of optimizers.
* The functions Check Tags, Check Links and Convert Special Characters have been skipped. These are now only available in HTML-Optimizer Pro and Web Site Maestro.
* Smart Handling has been improved and is now date+time sensitive.

Version 6.2.1
12 November 2002
* Added support for .vbs files
* Removes by default all meta generator tags.

Version 6.2
19 October 2002
* Added a wizard to guide you through the configuration process at first startup.
* Improved the tutorial and added a test web folder to demonstrate the program's capabilities.
* Optimized the application for use with Mac OS X 10.2 (Jaguar).
* Improved the optimizer engine.
* Less preparation time with link checking.
* Fixed some bugs related to working with XHTML files.
* Fixed a bug that could cause the application to crash when pressing the View Code button.
* Added a horizontal scrollbar to the text fields in order to make the View Code bug fix possible.
* Fixed some minor bugs.

Version 6.1.1
30 August 2002
* Added the option to remove spurious white space caused by some HTML Editors.
* This version is an important bug fix:
You have a fair chance that any error(s) and/or shortcoming(s) that you may have encountered in the past are over now. We recommend that every HTML-Optimizer User downloads this version.

Version 6.1
6 July 2002
* Added a command to the Configure menu to choose a browser to view your web pages. Previously Internet Explorer was always used despite your Internet preferences.
* Added a  separate HTML Manual - identical to the manual in the program.
* Added a Tutorial for First-Users.
* Added a Save File command to the File menu that does the same as pressing the Hide button after editing text but without a dialog.
* Added a menu command "Check for Update" to the HTML-Optimizer menu.
* Made the menu command 'Choose New Web Folder...' more user-friendly.
* Any script code between <? and ?> tags is now dealt with separate from the main HTML code and can be controlled by the upper two Script checkboxes in Optimization Options in Preferences.
* Fixed a bug in the 'Adding missing width and height attributes' option that caused that it did not work for (graphic) files with a relative path (in subfolders with own index file).
* Improved the 'Adding missing width and height attributes' option in such a way that it can add a Height attribute if only the Width attribute is present or add a Width attribute if only the Height attribute is present (previously it only added both if both were not present)
* Fixed a bug that caused that space was unintentionally removed from text in some cases.
* Fixed a bug that could cause the program to hang when removing redundant editor tags.
* Fixed a bug that corrupted php script.
* Fixed a 'File not found' error when handling a file from outside the web folder.
* Corrected a wrong caption in the 'Remove Comments from (X)HTML Code' checkbox in the Preferences window.
* Removed the option to add missing </P> tags because it proved to be unreliable.

Version 6.0
First release of the totally rewritten application on 20 May 2002.