HTML Shrinker Version History
Version 2.60 (December 2002): All Versions: - Bug fixed: Flashing and program freezing occured when some special folders inside the "My Documents" folder were selected.
- Several script shrinking problems and other bugs were removed
- Menu icons added
Pro Version only: - Up to 50% better shrinking of CSS code
- Support for VBS files
- Support for VBS and CSS code on the clipboard
- HTML Comments are removed from XML files
- New Rules:
- Seven new rules for removing empty tags. These rules are activated by default.
- New "Ignore ASP code" rule
- New Options:
- Check box in the Options dialog for ignoring all "_vti_" folders produced by Frontpage when using Shrink All
- "TCL Double Spaces" shrink option was renamed to "Double Spaces in TCL and VBScript"
- Ctl + T key shortcut for "Restore All"
- Bug Fixes:
- For the Ignore-type rule
- For the arrow up and down buttons in the Options dialog
- "Shrink to Folder" feature didn't work correctly with sub folders in some cases.
- Correct "var declarations" removal in scripts
- The -f command line option lets you specify a path without a trailing \ now
Commercial Pro Version only: - Features for flexibly shrinking different web sites:
- Features for opening and saving all settings of the Options dialog from/to a HSO file. This allows you to create different sets of shrinking options for different web sites.
- The "Edit /Add Site" dailogs additionally lets you specify a backup folder, a shrink folder and a HSO file for each site. When choosing a site from the Sites menu they are automatically set.
- Command line switch for opening a HSO file.
Version 2.50 (February 2002): General: - Shrinking is performed ca. 10% faster, because the shrinking code was further optimized
- Shrinking of spaces and quotes has been improved
- New "Empty Lines" shrinking option in the Options dialog
- Shrinking Presets were added to the Options dialog
- Script shrinking problems fixed
- Textarea tags are respected and their content is not shrunken anymore
- New tab-style Options dialog
- The Remove options were moved from the main window to the Rules tab of the Options dialog
- ?-buttons have been placed on all dialogs for displaying the appropriate help file
- The size of the currently selected file is displayed as a tool tip
- The text box that displays the shrinking results doesn't have the 32K limit anymore
- The file attributes readonly, hidden and system are automatically removed from files before shrinking to avoid problems
- The Restore warning message is only shown once and not everytime when you use "Restore"
Pro Version: - Rules feature for defining your own shrinking rules and extending the capabilities of HTML Shrinker
- The previous Remove options can now be edited in the Rules tab of the Options dialog
- Several useful rules are already included with HTML Shrinker Pro e.g. for removing meta tags, links, forms, asp code, all tags
- New Shrinking Options: For making html files produced with MS Office smaller as well as for removing Dreamweaver comments, unnecessary closing tags, unecessary meta tags, doctype tags, var Declarations etc.
- More control over what is removed from scripts and which comments are removed or not
- New 'Analyze All' command for analyzing all files in all sub folders
- 'Analyze' will now analyze all selected files and not just one file.
- XSL file format supported
- The Shrink All warning message is only shown once and not everytime when you use "Shrink All"
- The time that was neeeded to shrink each file is now displayed
- Several bugs fixed: Command Line feature works under Windows 2000 now; When dragging files or folders from the Explorer to HTML Shrinker the Shrink dialog is now displayed only once (and not for each file like before); Problems that occured when backing up/shrinking/restoring to/from a different folder was fixed
Version 2.01c (April 2001): General: - Window resizing problem fixed
- File names of shrunken files aren't converted to lower case anymore
- Quote removal problem in doctype tags fixed
- Error message doesn't appear anmyore if you shrink the 300th file in the file box
- File processing problems (e.g. if the html syntax isn't correct) don't lead to a crash anymore
Pro Version: - XHTML files are supported
- Problem with empty tag attributes solved
Version 2.01 (March 2001): General: - The behavior of the folder box has been improved. You only need to click a folder once to select it. Previously you had to double click it.
- Improved removal of unnecessary spaces. As an effect a display problem in Internet Explorer (a bug ???) is fixed.
- "Suppress the Backup Dialogs" check box in Options dialog was added for defining an automatic shrinking and restoring option
- Smaller script shrinking bugs fixed
- Tabs removal problem fixed
- Main window is resizable
- Right clicking the file box will display the File menu as a context menu
Light Version: - The Link Request message appears only once and never again now
- The Pro Version reminder doesn't appears that often anymore
Pro Version: - Greatly improved removal of unnecessary spaces. As a consequence the "Perform x shrinking passes ..." option isn't needed anymore.
- Improved shrinking of end of lines
- Improved shrinking of VBscript and ASP files
- Shrinking of TCL scripts added
- Analyze command for getting detailed information about which elements are removed from a certain file
- Dragging and dropping files or folders from the Explorer will trigger the Shrink command
- New "Sacrifice Shrinking Gain for Speed" check box in the Options dialog. If activated HTML Shrinker Pro should work 20% faster in average, but produce 1-2% larger files.
- Using 'Shrink All' on the c:\ root folder is prohibited to avoid problems. You have to select a sub folder instead.
- INC was added to the default file types that are processed by HTML Shrinker Pro
- "Shrink to the following folder" is working correctly now.
- Right clicking the folder box will display the Sites menu as a context menu
- Message about the ASP Default Language will pop up only one time when starting HTML Shrinker
- Bug fixed that occured when shrinking files from the command line
- New command line switch -i for displaying the Backup dialog before shrinking files
Version 2.0 (January 2001): General: - Improved shrinking of Javascript and PHP scripts
- Server Side Includes (SSI) problem fixed. They aren't removed anymore.
- Quotes aren't removed within SSIs anymore
- Dreamweaver comments aren't removed anymore
- Frontpage comments aren't removed unless you select it in the Options dialog
- PageMill's NoEdit tags aren't removed anymore
- The language attribute of the script tag is evaluated now
- Empty string bug removed
- EOLs aren't removed within PRE tags anymore
- Script and style end tags are removed now when activating the appropriate options on the main window
- No crash when text box is full or file is 0 byte large
- Larger dialog
- New Backup dialog appears before shrinking
- New Overwrite dialog
- New 'Show Source' command
- New 'Edit' menu for quickly selecting many files
- ESC key for interrupting the shrinking process
- You can use the Back key to jump to the next highest folder
- Grey text box for entering the folder path manually
- New frame for selecting file types in the Options dialog
- Hidden files and system files are displayed now
- New installation setup
Pro Version: - Shrinking of WML (wap), WMLS (wap script) and PL (perl) files and improved shrinking of ASP and and XML files
- Up to 50% better shrinking than the Light Version because of new shrinking options: Removement of unnecessary font tags, font face names, empty tag attributes, end of paragraphs and end of list items, replacement of large tags and characters with smaller ones
- Shrinks up to twice as fast as the Light Version, especially when shrinking dozens of pages
- Command line options for running HTML Shrinker e.g. from a script
- You can use HTML Shrinker directly from the Explorer by right clicking on folders or html files
- 'Shrink All' command for shrinking all files in the current folder and its sub folders
- 'Shrink Clipboard' command for shrinking the text on the clipboard
- 'Simulate Shrinking' command for testing the effectivity of HTML Shrinker
- New Backup options: Backup or Shrink recursively to a destination folder
- 'Restore All' command for undoing all shrinking in the current folder and all sub folders
- 'Remove All Backups' command for deleting all backups in the current folder and all sub folders
- New Option: Performing several shrinking passes per file
- Option on the main window to remove all font tags
- New 'Sites' menu for defining the root folders of your web sites and quickly jumping to them
Version 1.07 (5th February 2000): - Server Side Includes (SSI) are left untouched
- Visual SourceSafe comments aren't removed anymore
- Asp, php and java tags are supported now
- Improved shrinking of scripts and java tags
- The following file types are now displayed and processed by default: htm, html, shmtl, jhtml, xml, cfm, cfml, js, css, asp, php
- New option: Don't create backup file
Version 1.05 (14th August 1999): - Better compression
- New option for shrinking java scripts
- The shift/non breaking spaces option has been removed from the Options dialog, cause it changes the layout of web pages. It is now available from the main windows as "NB Spaces".
- New option for defining the displayed file types in the Options dialog
Version 1.03 (23rd July 1999): - Options dialog for defining your own shrinking options
- No shrinking within <Pre> Tags
- Larger main dialog
- Some smaller improvements and bug fixes.
Version 1.01 (3rd July 1999): - Necessary spaces aren't removed anymore
- "Remove all Images/Scripts/Styles" are deactivated after each session
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