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All the news and changes regarding blechtrottel brodaktschns in 2008 in chronological order.

Version 0.8.4 of the W3C-Markup Validator has been published. The changes needed to install it on your own pc are only minor ones.

Since spambots become trickier all the time we had to further develop the script behind our mail form.

Version 1.2 of our KDiff3 plugin for phase 5 is available. It now recognizes filepaths containing spaces.

Time flies - the history of blechtrottel.net has been updated.

WebKit browsers (Swift, Safari, Google Chrome, ...) had difficulties with displaying our logo on our homepage. We adapted the image accordingly.

Since development has stopped for Swift and progressed quite a bit for Safari we decided to mark our plugin accordingly.

There is a fourth screensaver available for download. Depicted this time are a few variants of typical Irish Breakfasts. Enjoy your meal!

The newest version of our plugin offers many improvements and takes care of some of the limitations of Iconv.

New version 0.8.3 of the W3C Markup-Validators is online. Although a bugfix release it requires more code tweaking than its predecessors.

Physiotherapist Claudia Holy has left the country. We wish her all the best.

If you want to get an idea of the philosophy that is behind our work have a look at our newest page.

After two relaunches of existing websites, a completely new project by blechtrottel brodaktschns has found its way into the WWW.

The download link to our downloads.mdb was broken on the English version of the page. As nobody reported it, we only came across this when we checked our logs for errors. We would like to apologize for the inconvenience.

In April version 2 went online. We finally updated our screenshot.

To make sure that Conditional Comments work and all browser windows are identified correctly download our brand-new ie-cc-test.html.

Since IE8's beta is out, our most popular download section has been updated again. Read how you can mark a standalone installation of Internet Explorer 7.

On February 29 version 2 of our largest project went online. You now get an updated screenshot here.

A new version of our Iconv plugin is online. Two user-definable quick buttons now allow one-click conversions.

Since usage of the plugin did not fully reach all users we added a few lines to our instructions.

Our link to AutoIt in the plugin's description was broken. We were made aware of that by our valiant beta tester Franz Kruft, who finally gets proper credit for it.

Version 3.0 of our plugin reacts a bit faster and brings comparisons with the newest online W3C Validator.

Apple has made progress with its Windows Safari. Our tips on how to use it with Phase 5 have been updated.

In 2007 there were three downloads at the top here at blechtrottel brodaktschns: our files for marking Internet Explorer 5.5 and 6 in multiple installations and our contribution to get rid of the error 1609 in Netgear WLAN drivers. We thank our visitors for their interest.

Finally in the internet, you can now find the last module necessary for installing the validator under Windows (Encode::JIS2K). Our instructions now reflect this.

As we reported in September 2007, blechtrottel brodaktschns moved to another server in our provider's pool. Based on our experience with PHP5 there and on some suggestions made by our visitors, we have refined our information on XSLT in PHP.

What happened to be new in 2007.

All that happened in 2006.

All that happened in 2005.

The early history of blechtrottel brodaktschns.

The first pages of the English version go online
(validator, web tools, about us)

After about a year of preparations and frantic development the German version of blechtrottel brodaktschns go online.