Site Change Log

Version 6o · 21 February 2021

returned to ‘normality’, abandoned the « sept » series
adjusted styles to fit « sept » HTML revisions
- added timestamp to article footers
- redesigned previous/next buttons for individual articles/links pages

6o14 · 3 March 2022

added <figure> and <figcaption> styles
added round and shadow class styles for images
changed <ul> bullets to use a smaller glyph
corrected text colour of pagination blocks in dark mode

6o22 · 5 March 2022

added multi-image grid rules for <figure>, <img> and <figcaption> styles
added hundred, sixty, fifty and forty width classes for <img>
Markdown: added <figure> and <details> to block elements so they don’t get wrapped in <p> tags

6o32 · 6 March 2022

added hover styles for links on images inside of <figure> elements
adjusted spacing between <figcaption> and its predecessor
added override styles for additional <figure> margins

6o37 · 7 March 2022

changed multi-image <figure> to use a grid only on wider viewports
adjusted <h4> style to better communicate its place in the hierarchy
adjusted transition speed of image links in <figure> tags

Version 7a

7a42 · 1 July 2020

Initial release of « sept ».

Version 6n · 4 May 2019

added ‘Recent Articles’ section on main index page
added styles to support ‘Recent Articles’

6n1 · 5 May 2019

added ‘Recent Articles’ section to latest link entry page
added additional styles to support ‘Recent Articles’ on a link page

6n2 · 9 May 2019

added <hr> style

6n3 · 11 May 2019

added site search page
added link to footer to search
added styles for footer links

6n4 · 12 May 2019

adjusted footer link colour
added styles for <form> and <input> items, specifically for the site search page

6n5 · 12 May 2019

widened main block on large screens

6n6 · 12 May 2019

tweaked <hr> style
tweaked <h2> and <h3> neighbour rules to pull any following content up closer to the heading, not just <p> tags
added support for <strong><em> to produce just boldface text (opposite also works)

6n7 · 23 May 2019

darkened logo colour for mobile screens
widened nav bar on mobile to accommodate addition of ‘Search’
reduced angle of border-radius on the main block on mobile

6n8 · 16 June 2019

updated <pre> style to scroll horizontal overflow and visually distinguish it
tweaked size of <nav> to make sure it handles addition of ‘Incidentally’

6n9 · 23 June 2019

further adjusted width of <nav> to improve its layout on slightly narrow screens
restored header/home link to use old background colours
added .hidden class for use around screenreader-friendly site header

6n10 · 17 August 2019

increased line height on larger (iPad and up) screens

6n11 · 29 September 2019

adjusted <h2> and <h3> headers
re-enabled <h4> styles

6n12 · 29 September 2019

restored recently <h2> to its former beauty

6n13 · 30 September 2019

slightly increased line height on block quotes
slightly increased text size for headings in dark mode

6n14 · 2 October 2019

corrected colouration for <h4> links in dark mode
added badge-block for Colophon page
minor adjustment to header text
updated acknowledgements in <head>

6n15 · 3 October 2019

added and styled <h2> blocks to individual articles for their subhead, at Rose’s behest

6n16 · 5 October 2019

slightly reduced ‘medium’-size class text and associated line height
added extra top margin to elements following <h2>
removed top margin from elements following <h3>

6n17 · 13 October 2019

reduced line-height for iPad-size class

Other changes in the 6n17 time frame

Feeds: updated all feeds to include subhead at top of article
Feeds: corrected closing <p> tag for link entries in RSS feed
Feeds: made ‘Link:’ text bold

6n18 · 14 October 2019

make dark mode text a bit brighter
removed extra font-family declarations
changed <strong><em> to display in small caps
removed small caps from <strong>
changed default margin for <img> tags

6n19 · 15 October 2019

add roman class for <h1> for use on specific pages
improved appearance of article sub-head <h2> on mobile

6n20 · 19 October 2019

dark mode now uses the correct antialias setting (it was previously overridden by a * selector

6n21 · 25 November 2019

change search button’s dark mode hover colours

6n22 · 31 December 2019

tightened line height all around

6n23 · 12 January 2020

added support for <sup>, even if only used in one article
tidied up HTML, removing unused class specifications on <header> and <article>
added widont to <h2> subheads

Version 6m · 15 April 2019

completely renovated stylesheets to use a base line-height as basis for measurements resulting in numerous small changes to margins and padding throughout
added transitions for switching to and from light and dark modes
re-styled h2 and h3 to be more legible
slightly narrowed main column on desktop screens
added support for Klim’s Pitch typeface for <pre> and <code> items
lightened text colour for <blockquote> items and increased text size from 6l
added padding to a:hover background, negated by margin to give the link text some breathing room

6m1

<strong> now displays in small caps in addition to boldface

6m2

<pre> and <code> now use slightly smaller text size
<pre> blocks are padded
increased line height on larger displays

6m3

adjusted large screen layout rules to better support iPad in portrait landscape

6m4

changed <nav> :hover to use underlines rather than pills
changed site heading :hover colours
adjusted nested list rules to use appropriate top margin

Version 6l · 29 March 2019

HTML

added an aside for site navigation
deduplicated footer links
adjusted viewport initial scale to 1.0
added id anchors to headings (except on this page as it would produce invalid HTML)
made headings with an id links

CSS

decreased text size and line height of blockquotes
added hover animations for site header links
styled aside links
adjusted site header to accommodate for the aside
initial (true) mobile version
- site header and aside use a lighter colour
- index permalink circles use dark colour by default
- page width and text size adjustments
improved layout on iPads
- use desktop colours on larger viewports
- keep mobile text sizes
adjusted aside flex layout rules to handle smaller screens more elegantly
added hover animation for index permalinks
65: changed colouration of linked headings (and their hover state colours)
65: added :hover highlights to plain links, which necessitated some working around with other links
66: corrected dark mode link hover backgrounds

Feeds

begin transitioning away from using MT’s atom links for the entry id in Atom feed without causing mass unreads in RSS readers

Site

added a site archive with the help of the Internet Archive and an old hard drive

Version 6k · 10 March 2019

HTML

tidied up head and its templates
added viewport directives to provide a slightly better mobile experience
small tweaks to page footer
finished tidying up old markup (/links had been ignored; oops)

CSS

increased site footer text size a bit
added additional space above h2 headers (unless preceded by a header)
tweaked link colours, probably not for the last time
added Firefox font smoothing properties
decreased maximum width of main
widened the article content block slightly
finally picked out only needed bits from normalize.css
decreased line-height by 0.1rem

Feeds

added /feeds page
added JSON and RSS 2.0 feeds (/feeds/json and /feeds/rss)
tidied up the old Atom feed, moved to /feeds/atom
tidied up JSON feed

Site

.text files are now generated for pages too
/links updates
- index lists links to monthly archive pages
- added monthly archives
- added yearly archives
cleaned out database

Version 6j · 25 February 2019

HTML

streamline and make more semantic
no more escaped entities (it’s 2019 after all!)

CSS

various updates to fit and work around new HTML
basic image style
added some space below linked entries’ titles
fixed old-style numbers not being used in footer
removed justification from articles (for now?)
link highlight in articles now applied consistently (outside of p tags)
linked titles on archive lists now displays correctly in dark mode
changed body text fallback to fall to -apple-system before ‘serif’ to get nice system symbols (⇧⌥⌘) without re-classing them (a temporary measure, perhaps)

Site

reworked .htaccess RewriteRules so we’re now using .html for html files again
Article Archive: refer to as ‘Archive’ rather than ‘Archives’
added colophon
added yearly archive pages
.text articles no longer use zero-padded dates

Version 6i · 20 February 2019

added templates for text-only entries (accessible by appending ‘.text’ to end of URL)
added styles for abbr and strong tags
adjusted strong style to not use small caps
updated ::selection selectors and colour
updated individual link entries to use the ‘link’-like style

Version 6h · 17 February 2019

added ‘link blog’
- added styles for linked posts on main index (link entry archives may be adjusted to match this at a later time)
- adjusted styles for main index permalinks
updated page markup
- put section tags inside main tags, not viceversa
- removed invalid rel="bookmark" in head block
added specific styling for page headers (as seen on monthly archive pages)

Version 6g · 12 February 2019

moved to Movable Type 7 (mind out for whiplash)
added styling adjustments for MT monthly archive indexes
multi-entry index pilcrow/permalinks: reduced opacity (restored on hover)

Version 6f · 11 February 2019

added archive (all entries) page and styles for it
adding padding above individual article footer
removed some of the ‘Aria’ and other schema specifications
- Safari Reader Mode is still broken on home page, mixing headings and article bodies

Version 6e · 10 February 2019

moved back to Textpattern
- markup slightly tweaked
altered font antialiasing choices
- antialiased for light mode
- subpixel-antialiased for dark mode
added permalinks to bottoms of listed articles
added generous padding to bottoms of listed articles
blockquote styling: changed from italic to normal

Version 6d · 22 January 2019

added dark mode CSS support
updated feed link to no longer use {{ feed_meta }}
updated page titles to include site name on post pages
added favicon and apple-touch-icon
rearranged _assets
added hyphenation to body
added some space between articles on home
adjusted font sizes to be a bit smaller
updated link colouring
added pinned tab icon for Safari

Version 6c · 2 January 2019

now built with Jekyll
all markup is new, using HTML 5 (goodbye unnecessary divs)
CSS rebuilt to fit new HTML
added rounded corners to content block, narrowed it
new single post styling with permalinks and prev/next navigation
modular CSS/SCSS
started work for dark mode colours
changed permalinks from /post-title used in Textpattern to /year/month/post-title

Version 6b · 26 December 2018

typeface changed to Heldane Text and Display
- Site header uses swashes to create a ‘logo’
- Post titles use swashes just to be pretty
added a content block on top of a dark background

Version 6a · 8 December 2018

added header block with new dark purple colour
body and heading typeface changed to Dover Serif Text
site header typeface changed to Dover Sans Text

Change log of the distant past

Any updates between the latest here and the ‘modern’ 2018 and onward site happened at either neverpandas.com or on a tumblr site to the best of my recollection.

Version 5a52 • 1 August 2006

Last update recorded

Locally archived version of «cinque» 5A52 home page and article pages. Screenshots of 5a79 (no changes recorded): article page screenshot and home page screenshot.