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Updated Feb 12, 1998

What's new, what's coming

• NEW Feb 18, 2002. The chinese characters have all been rendered as pictures, so there is no longer any need to use special software to view the page. Our former ISP dumped all their residential customers, so our URL has changed.
• Feb 12, 1998. Restructured the radical index page into separate pages for each radical, with a master index. This speeds up loading and reduces memory requirements for the browser.
• Feb 11, 1998. Added a "Link" page with a few general links to the World Wide Web.
• Jan 29, 1998. Updated/revised external links for viewing Chinese on the World Wide Web. Gosh, these links go out of date so fast! More than half of them had been moved or had expired.
• Jan 25, 1998 Extensively revised and expanded. The radical, stroke and pinyin indexes have been greatly expanded. Over 100 new character entries since the last update.
• Annoying problem with some hanzi displaying as bizarre ASCII characters has been fixed. A utility has been stripping What it thought was line feeds from the source! This affected mostly the Indexes.
• COMING: About 10% of the characters remain to be translated.
• COMING: The " small-seal " representations for many characters have been scanned.
• COMING: The interlinear commentaries are complete and will be posted soon.
• COMING: A pretty good appendix.
• August 8, 1997 Link added to the Mandarin Guide "Reading Chinese on the Web"
• August 8, 1997 John Montanaro's flash cards were added to the bibleography.
• August 6, 1997 The lexicon character entries have been reformatted, improving the readability of the information, halving storage requirements, and adding new information on part of speech and derivations.
• August 3, 1997 The stroke and pinyin indexes are in place; a few characters fail to display properly in B5 code.
• August 3, 1997 ALT tags have been added throughout, making this site friendlier to non-graphical browsers such as Lynx. A variety of HTML irregularities were smoothed out. Tightening of the HTML resulted in shrinking disk storage by nearly 50%. A few cosmetic changes were made to the home page, including the new title. An on-line collaborative comment page was added Courtesy of Phil Greenspun.
• July 26, 1997 Formatting for diacritics (ü, ê, etc) has been fixed.
• July 26, 1997 The first 10 appearances in the text is shown.
• July 26, 1997 Many of the pinyin romanizations have been italicized, which improves readability of the text
• July 26, 1997 About 300 new definitions have been added.

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