v3.0.0

Originally going to be just a minor 2.1.0 release, as a new menu design and some bug fixes to recently added features, v3 took on a life of its own. It made sense to do an additional overhaul of the internal structure to better support the new design, and to also make it a little more modular and easier to maintain going forward.

New features

Individual tool pages

Each tool, along with remaining available on each main/top-level page, is also now available on their own dedicated page.

Sidebar / Navigation

• Overhauled the primary navigation across the site, replacing the bootstrap offcanvas flyout menu with a left hand expanding sidebar (though a customised offcanvas version of the menu exists for smaller screen devices)
• Sidebar can be expanded by clicking on the hamburger icon next to the sitename
• Clicking the dropdown toggle on a tab will auto-expand to reveal a list of all the child pages
• Child pages now link through to that tool's dedicated page, instead of scrolling to its position (goodbye scroll issues)
• Closing the menu will close all open tabs
• Added new icons for each of the primary sections (these will be improved upon in future)
• Re-arranged order of items in the menu

Pagingation

• Added "Jump to first page" and "Jump to last page" pagination links

Changes

• Moved the footer inside the main content area
• Minor improvement to the 404 message text
• Reduced the previous page number count down to 1, so there's more space and hopefully helps prevent pagination from breaking out of page boundaries
• On mobile, hide the Next/Previous text in favor of simple ASCII arrows ⇦ ⇦ and ⇨ ⇨
• Removed scrolling from the root HTML element and focused it on the content area
• Switched Sitemap to a masonary layout, to neaten it up a little
• Add page links to sitemap headers
• Various changes and improvements made to text, link and button colors for accessibility

Bug fixes

• Fixed issue with tag filter where it had the potential to expose other site assets/pages
• Fixed some issues with keyword encode/decode, where the custom generated alphabet wouldn't always be reliable and provide inaccurate results
• Fixed some sass compiler warnings

Behind the scenes changes

This is a list of more technical and non-front facing changes made to the site

New features

• Added dynamic(-ish) import for JS files on all Pages, this way when the pages are included in the main landing page, they'll all come with the necessary functionality

Changes

• Moved pagination into its own separate component file, so it can be re-used elsewhere
• Updated Bootstrap core js to 5.3.3
• Created individual mjs files for each tool event and functions
• Reduced the number of scripts loaded on a each page, additionally only loading in the scripts and functions necessary for that tool
• Updated all scripts to output functions to the window object, making them web console accessible/usable

v2.0.2

Changes

• Re-introduced the 'release' tag to all relevant changelogs
• Only show "View on Github" release link on a changelog, if that version was officially released
• Updated release badge color and description
• Added remainder of the changelog items from Github, right back to 1.0.1
• Increased the spacing between changelog content and the "View on Github" button

Bug fixes

• Correctly handle navigation urls by adding the | url filter. Main nav urls were broken due to ../, when in a sub-directory, not pointing to the root of the site
• Fixed missing 'v' prefix on the title of Changelog pages
  Using templateSyntax is a weird but decent enough workaround to only target the changelog item itself

v2.0.0

New features

Changelog

• Added a built in changelog that shows recent feature additions, updates, and bug fixes (saves going offsite to Github)
  Accessible from the fly-out navigation and by clicking the site version number in the footer
• Tags are also clickable, leading to a filtered list of changelog items that include the given tag/label
• Added a list of available tags, along with the number of times that tag has been used and a link to the filtered changelog list (if greater than 0)

Hex reversing

• Added correct functionality for reversing Hex nibbles
• Added ability to chain reverse commands together
• Added delimiter support to all reverse functions

Breadcrumbs

• Added breadcrumb navigation across the site, for additional ease of navigation

Changes

Platform

• Migrated the codebase to ESM to (hopefully) make it easier to maintain and improve going forward
• Split front-end JS functionality into its own file, separate from main functions
• Assigned some functions [ONI] to the global window object, so they can still be accessed from the web console
• Updated/improved various JS Doc comments
• Added meta keywords and open graph tags to the site

Frontend

• Improved/unified various tool descriptions and examples
• Added changelog and sitemap links to the flyout navigation
• Changed the version number link in the footer to point to the internal changelog now, rather than Github
• Changed the "Not data to clear" notice to be informational, rather than a warning (no data isn't always bad)

A11y

• Remove italicised fonts and replaced with prefixed dash
• Improved labels/titles on Forerunner buttons
• Improved the color contrast ratios with links, buttons, and labels

Bug fixes

• Fixed issue with binary conversion, ensuring that spaces are not counted when checking if Binary is valid
• Correctly handle times when local storage won't have a stored value for a section toggle
• [A11y] Fixed incorrect hex delimiter label on Convrtrs

v1.20.0

New features

Smithy code

• Incorporates the Fibonacci sequence into the keyword using in encryption/decryption, to make an interesting cipher. Was initially used in The Da Vinci Code copyright case, hidden inside court documentation.

v1.19.0

New features

Color generator

• Generates hex colors from a given string of data, displayed as both a list of hex colors and visually as blocks of colors. Padding is used to add extra characters, in the event the hex colors can't make up to 6 characters. You can hover over each block to get the hex color of the block, or copy/download all the colors.

v1.18.0

New features

Periodic elements

An interactive grid of periodic elements, presented as buttons. Clicking on a button will display information about that element into a table below. A dropdown is available to filter the available elements by various properties, like blocks, periods, groups and phases.

Changes

• Added correct attributions for use of elements JSON data

v1.17.11

Changes

• Added max height and scrollbar to the results areas, in the event of large amounts of data
• Justified text on results panel (looks neater)

Bug fixes

• Fixed an issue with styling on hex frequency generation: minimum size was missing from standard 2-character frequencies

v1.17.10

New features

• Added ability to preserve spaces in Text tools (only applicable to certain tools)

Bug fixes

• Fixed an issue that removed "stripallwhitespace" from the tool and prevented it from working

v1.17.9

Changes

• Overhauled many functions for better readability, easier maintenance and future updates. Simplified some and improved the overall performance/efficiency of others
• Add a default value to hex shift

Bug fixes

• Fixed a bug with hex shifts, where the shift value was being parsed as a string instead of a number giving incorrect results

v1.17.8

New features

• Added additional Text tool to strip all whitespace from a string (this will include things like tabs and newlines)

Changes

• Added better support for multibyte conversions when converting to and from hex, and when shifting hex strings
• Added better support for multibyte conversions when converting to and from binary strings
• Replaced ord() function with a much simpler solution using TextEncoder
• Improvements and simplifications to various functions
• Adding some checks around event listeners to make sure events only fire when they have something to fire on

Bug fixes

• Fixed an issue where image generation would generate an embeddable image tag, but no longer generate a downloadable image file