Revision history for Perl module HTML::Clean

0.8 Tue Sep 5 08:02:05 PDT 2000

• Fix dequote regex to be stricter. Make sure quote/double quote match, only use alpha as the paramater name. Reported by Renzo Tomà.
• Removed regexes for removing space within tags and border=0 case. This Causes text in attributes to fail, and table borders get messed up on IE. Reported by Gregory Stark.
• Fix for improper parsing of emptytags from Jens Quade.
• Fix from Tobias Weber to clean javascript

0.7 Sat Apr 24 03:04:45 MET DST 1999

• Add missing 'hairy.html' file to fix broken test cases.
• Add alt="" items to images without alt tags.
• Apply same compatibility option to Verdana and Futura font.

0.6 Fri Apr 23 14:03:30 MET DST 1999

• Now removes whitespace from within tags, like this: <table > becomes <table>
• Do a second pass at whitespace removal
• Remove some default elements from specific tags border=0 from table, method=get from forms, etc.
• Remove default port 80 from URLs
• New option, lowercasetags to make all tags lowercase. Quantitative testing shows that this improves compressibility, it should make pages download faster over modems with compression turned on.
• Expanded tests. Use lynx to quickly see if the changed HTML 'looks' correct.

0.5 Mon Feb 22 13:12:32 MET 1999

• Now removes empty tag sets. For instance <i><b></b></i> is now eliminated. (From Philippe Verdret)
• Cleans up excess space in inline javascript functions. Does a better job of removing javascript comments. (idea from Phillippe Verdret)
• Added a larger list of default color names to replace.

0.4 Mon Jan 18 15:10:35 MET 1999

• Bug Fix: use upper case filehandle names (from numerous people..)
• Enabled level and options (patch from Mike Heins) strip() function changed. No longer accepts level param. htmlclean shell script takes -1 .. -9 as command line options.
• Clean up HTML colors, replace with shorter text names.

  For example, bgcolor="#ffffff" -> bgcolor=white

• When using the iso-8859-1 charset remap character entities like &Eacute; to the eight bit equivalent.
• More documentation

0.3 Mon Jan 11 14:05:15 MET 1999

• Fixed serious htmlclean script bug.
• Added a little more documentation.

0.2 Tue Dec 29 10:13:16 MET 1998

• expanded number of strip options
• First CPAN release..

0.1 Fri Apr 17 13:42:11 1998

• original version