[wwwdocs] Use CSS, instead of tables, also for the Java News page

[wwwdocs] Use CSS, instead of tables, also for the Java News page

[Gerald Pfeifer]

Last month I did this conversion for the news items on the main GCJ
page; this completes this mini project and will allow us to "rotate"
news more easily going forward.

  2006-07-01  Gerald Pfeifer  <gerald@pfeifer.com>

	* news.html: Untablify, and use CSS formatting instead.

Installed.

Gerald

Index: news.html
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RCS file: /cvs/gcc/wwwdocs/htdocs/java/news.html,v
retrieving revision 1.5
retrieving revision 1.7
diff -u -3 -p -r1.5 -r1.7
--- news.html	19 May 2006 16:20:42 -0000	1.5
+++ news.html	1 Jul 2006 16:58:54 -0000	1.7
@@ -8,30 +8,29 @@
 
 <h1>GCJ - Less Recent News</h1>
 
-<table>
-
 <!-- News entries start here -->
 
-<tr><td valign="top">
-<b>November 25, 2004</b>
-</td><td>
+<dl class="news">
+
+<dt>November 25, 2004</dt>
+<dd>
 John David Anglin checked in <a
 href="http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2004-11/msg02214.html">a patch</a>
 to enable libjava to be built by default on hppa-unknown-linux-gnu.
-</td></tr>
+</dd>
+
 
-<tr><td valign="top">
-<b>November 22, 2004</b>
-</td><td>
+<dt>November 22, 2004</dt>
+<dd>
 We're pleased to announce that the GCJ binary compatibility branch has
 been merged to the trunk.  This work includes a new ABI which allows
 precompiled code to follow the binary compatibility rules of the Java
 programming language.
-</td></tr>
+</dd>
 
-<tr><td valign="top">
-<b>September 21, 2004</b>
-</td><td>
+
+<dt>September 21, 2004</dt>
+<dd>
 Andreas Tobler imported the new <code>javax.crypto</code>,
 <code>javax.crypto.interfaces</code>, <code>javax.crypto.spec</code>,
 <code>javax.net</code>, <code>javax.net.ssl</code>,
@@ -45,297 +44,297 @@ then next major release.  Extra crypto a
 from the <a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/gnu-crypto/">GNU Crypto</a>
 project, a full TLS implementation is provided by the
 <a href="http://www.nongnu.org/jessie/">Jessie</a> project.
-</td></tr>
+</dd>
+
 
-<tr><td valign="top">
-<b>July 16, 2004</b>
-</td><td>
+<dt>July 16, 2004</dt>
+<dd>
 AWT and Swing support continues to improve rapidly. Thomas Fitzsimmons of Red Hat
 added support for the AWT 1.0 event model, still used by many web
 applets. This means that Slime Volleyball now runs on GCJ and gcjwebplugin.
 Here's the 
 <a href="http://people.redhat.com/fitzsim/slime-volleyball-screenshots.html">
 evidence</a>!
-</td></tr>
+</dd>
+
 
-<tr><td valign="top">
-<b>July 16, 2004</b>
-</td><td>
+<dt>July 16, 2004</dt>
+<dd>
 GCJ in the press! The July issue of Linux Journal
 features an article on building the Eclipse IDE to native code using GCJ:
 <a href="http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/7413">Eclipse
 goes native</a>. The July issue of Doctor Dobbs Journal also 
 features an article (not available online) on GCJ and the Compiled Native 
 Interface (<a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcj/About-CNI.html">CNI</a>).
-</td></tr>
+</dd>
 
-<tr><td valign="top">
-<b>March 9, 2004</b>
-</td><td>
+
+<dt>March 9, 2004</dt>
+<dd>
 Thanks to Wes Biggs and the other GNU Regexp authors, Mark Wielaard
 (for merging into Classpath) and Anthony Green (for merging into
 libgcj), we now have support for <code>java.util.regex</code>.  This
 arrives a little too late for gcc 3.4, but it will appear in the next
 major release.
-</td></tr>
+</dd>
+
 
-<tr><td valign="top">
-<b>January 22, 2004</b>
-</td><td>
+<dt>January 22, 2004</dt>
+<dd>
 Graydon Hoare has checked in
 <a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/java-patches/2004-q1/msg00241.html">a
 patch to implement Swing buttons</a>.  This is the first working Swing code,
 a major improvement.  See the <a href="swingshot.png">screen shot</a>.
-</td></tr>
+</dd>
+
 
-<tr><td valign="top">
-<b>January 9, 2004</b>
-</td><td>
+<dt>January 9, 2004</dt>
+<dd>
 Andrew Haley has checked in
 <a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2004-01/msg00362.html">a
 large reorganization</a> of <code>-findirect-dispatch</code>.  This is
 an important step toward the new binary compatibility ABI.
-</td></tr>
+</dd>
 
-<tr><td valign="top">
-<b>September 3, 2003</b>
-</td><td>
+
+<dt>September 3, 2003</dt>
+<dd>
 Jeff Sturm has adapted Jan Hubicka's call graph optimization code to gcj.
 This code improves gcj's method inlining abilities with support for
 out-of-order methods and inter-class method calls, along with improved
 code size heuristics.  It is enabled by default when compiling at -O3.
-</td></tr>
+</dd>
+
 
-<tr><td valign="top">
-<b>August 4, 2003</b>
-</td><td>
+<dt>August 4, 2003</dt>
+<dd>
 Gary Benson from Red Hat has released 
 <a href="http://people.redhat.com/gbenson/naoko/">Naoko</a>: a subset 
 of the <a href="http://sources.redhat.com/rhug/">rhug</a> packages 
 that have been repackaged for eventual inclusion in Red Hat Linux. 
 Naoko basically comprises binary RPMS of Ant, Tomcat, and their 
 dependencies built with gcj.
-</td></tr>
+</dd>
 
-<tr><td valign="top">
-<b>August 2, 2003</b>
-</td><td>
+
+<dt>August 2, 2003</dt>
+<dd>
 Tom Tromey, Andrew Haley and others from Red Hat win the 
 <a href="http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/classpath/2003-08/msg00004.html">
 Fast Free Eclipse Prize</a>.
-</td></tr>
+</dd>
+
 
-<tr><td valign="top">
-<b>August 1, 2003</b>
-</td><td>
+<dt>August 1, 2003</dt>
+<dd>
 A team of hackers from Red Hat has released RPMS for a version
 of <a href="http://www.eclipse.org/">Eclipse</a>, a free software IDE
 written in Java, that has been compiled with a modified gcj.
 You can find more information
 <a href="http://sources.redhat.com/eclipse/">here</a>.  We'll be
 integrating the required gcj patches into cvs in the near future.
-</td></tr>
+</dd>
+
 
-<tr><td valign="top">
-<b>July 31, 2003</b>
-</td><td>
+<dt>July 31, 2003</dt>
+<dd>
 Andrew Haley has checked in a major patch to the
 <a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/projects/tree-ssa/">tree-ssa branch</a>
 that allows us to convert entire functions to trees when reading
 from <code>.class</code> files.  This is an important step towards
 better high-level optimizations for Java.
-</td></tr>
+</dd>
 
-<tr><td valign="top">
-<b>July 30, 2003</b>
-</td><td>
+
+<dt>July 30, 2003</dt>
+<dd>
 Thanks to Andreas Tobler and Jeff Sturm, libgcj is now built by
 default for Darwin.  This work is available on the cvs trunk, and
 will show up in GCJ 3.4.
-</td></tr>
+</dd>
+
 
-<tr><td valign="top">
-<b>July 28, 2003</b>
-</td><td>
+<dt>July 28, 2003</dt>
+<dd>
 Michael Koch has announced the first (0.0.1) release of
 <a href="http://www.nongnu.org/gcjwebplugin/">gcjwebplugin</a>.
 This is a plugin to allow execution of applets in web browsers
 like Mozilla, Konqueror, and Opera.  Currently it is still a
 proof-of-concept.
-</td></tr>
+</dd>
 
-<tr><td valign="top">
-<b>May 14, 2003</b>
-</td><td>
+
+<dt>May 14, 2003</dt>
+<dd>
 <a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-3.3/">GCC 3.3 has been released</a>.
 This release includes many bug fixes, support for <code>assert</code>,
 and JDBC 3.0 support in <code>java.sql</code>
 and <code>javax.sql</code>, among other things.
-</td></tr>
+</dd>
+
 
-<tr><td valign="top">
-<b>January 3, 2003</b>
-</td><td>
+<dt>January 3, 2003</dt>
+<dd>
 Jeff Sturm implemented libffi closures for SPARC so that libgcj's
 bytecode interpreter is now available on SPARC Solaris hosts.
-</td></tr>
+</dd>
+
 
-<tr><td valign="top">
-<b>January 1, 2003</b>
-</td><td>
+<dt>January 1, 2003</dt>
+<dd>
 The January 2003 issue of Linux Journal contains the article
 <a href="http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=4860">
 <cite>Compiling Java with GCJ</cite></a> by Per Bothner.
-</td></tr>
+</dd>
 
-<tr><td valign="top">
-<b>December 27, 2002</b>
-</td><td>
+
+<dt>December 27, 2002</dt>
+<dd>
 It is now possible to run the <a href="http://www.eclipse.org">Eclipse</a> IDE 
 using the GCJ runtime, thanks to the work of Tom Tromey, Mark Wielaard, and
 others. Mark has a web page with further information and screenshots <a
 href="http://www.klomp.org/mark/gij_eclipse/index.html">here</a>.
-</td></tr>
+</dd>
+
 
-<tr><td valign="top">
-<b>September 29, 2002</b>
-</td><td>
+<dt>September 29, 2002</dt>
+<dd>
 Ulrich Weigand has implemented the necessary support in libffi to get
 libgcj running on the s390x.
-</td></tr>
+</dd>
 
-<tr><td valign="top">
-<b>September 29, 2002</b>
-</td><td>
+
+<dt>September 29, 2002</dt>
+<dd>
 Anthony Green merged the java.lang.reflect.Proxy implementation in from 
 GNU Classpath.
-</td></tr>
+</dd>
+
 
-<tr><td valign="top">
-<b>August 16, 2002</b>
-</td><td>
+<dt>August 16, 2002</dt>
+<dd>
 Andrew Haley updated the gcc tree-based inliner to work for gcj.
-</td></tr>
+</dd>
+
 
-<tr><td valign="top">
-<b>July 25, 2002</b>
-</td><td>
+<dt>July 25, 2002</dt>
+<dd>
 Kaz Kojima has implemented the necessary support in libffi and libjava
 to get libgcj running on SH-3/4.
-</td></tr>
+</dd>
 
-<tr><td valign="top">
-<b>July 19, 2002</b>
-</td><td>
+
+<dt>July 19, 2002</dt>
+<dd>
 Bo Thorsen, SuSE Labs, has implemented the necessary support in libffi,
 boehm-gc and libjava to get libgcj running on x86-64. This is a big
 step towards getting libgcj fully supported on x86-64.
-</td></tr>
+</dd>
+
 
-<tr><td valign="top">
-<b>June 24, 2002</b>
-</td><td>
+<dt>June 24, 2002</dt>
+<dd>
 Tom Tromey has checked in a patch that makes the bytecode interpreter
 use direct threading.  This gives the interpreter a performance
 boost.
-</td></tr>
+</dd>
 
-<tr><td valign="top">
-<b>June 21, 2002</b>
-</td><td>
+
+<dt>June 21, 2002</dt>
+<dd>
 The <code>java.sql</code> and <code>javax.sql</code> packages were updated
 by Bryce McKinlay to implement the JDBC 3.0 (JDK 1.4) API.
-</td></tr>
+</dd>
+
 
-<tr><td valign="top">
-<b>June 11, 2002</b>
-</td><td>
+<dt>June 11, 2002</dt>
+<dd>
 Tom Tromey has implemented the JDK 1.4 <code>assert</code> facility.
-</td></tr>
+</dd>
+
 
-<tr><td valign="top">
-<b>March 10, 2002</b>
-</td><td>
+<dt>March 10, 2002</dt>
+<dd>
 Adam Megacz has contributed a mingw32 port of libgcj.  This port is
 still a little bit incomplete (e.g., <code>java.lang.Process</code>
 doesn't work), and it currently only works as a target, not a host.
 Still, it works, and he is using it for <a
 href="http://www.xwt.org/">XWT</a>.  This work will appear in the
 upcoming 3.1 release.
-</td></tr>
+</dd>
 
-<tr><td valign="top">
-<b>February 28, 2002</b>
-</td><td>
+
+<dt>February 28, 2002</dt>
+<dd>
 Bryce McKinlay has contributed a patch to optimize some of the array
 access and added a new compiler flag, <code>--no-store-check</code>,
 to disable assignability checks for stores into object arrays. With
 code that is known not to throw <code>ArrayStoreException</code>, this
 flag can be used to disable the check operations. In which case it can
 provide a reasonable performance boost and slight code size reduction.
-</td></tr>
+</dd>
+
 
-<tr><td valign="top">
-<b>January 22, 2002</b>
-</td><td>
+<dt>January 22, 2002</dt>
+<dd>
 Tom Tromey has contributed a patch to allow certain Java method calls
 to be inlined by gcj.  For instance, calls to <code>Math.min</code>
 are now inlined when optimization is enabled.  This patch includes
 some infrastructure to make it easy to add more such inlines when
 desired.
-</td></tr>
+</dd>
 
-<tr><td valign="top">
-<b>January 14, 2002</b>
-</td><td>
+
+<dt>January 14, 2002</dt>
+<dd>
 Richard Stallman has changed the licensing of the Classpath AWT
 implementation to match the licensing of the rest of Classpath.  This
 means that the only remaining barrier to AWT for libgcj is manpower.
 Work has already begun to merge the Classpath and libgcj AWT
 implementations.
-</td></tr>
+</dd>
+
 
-<tr><td valign="top">
-<b>January 14, 2002</b>
-</td><td>
+<dt>January 14, 2002</dt>
+<dd>
 Adam Megacz announced that <a href="http://www.xwt.org">XWT</a> is
 an ActiveX control which is written in Java and compiled with gcj.
 We hope to be checking in his Windows patches in the near future.
-</td></tr>
+</dd>
+
 
-<tr><td valign="top">
-<b>December 14, 2001</b>
-</td><td>
+<dt>December 14, 2001</dt>
+<dd>
 Hans Boehm has checked in changes which once again allow gcj and
 libgcj to work on IA-64.  His changes also speed up allocation of
 objects which don't require a finalizer.
-</td></tr>
+</dd>
 
-<tr><td valign="top">
-<b>November 5, 2001</b>
-</td><td>
+
+<dt>November 5, 2001</dt>
+<dd>
 Tom Tromey contributed a bytecode verifier.  It hasn't yet been
 extensively tested, so it is still disabled by default.
-</td></tr>
+</dd>
+
 
-<tr><td valign="top">
-<b>October 24, 2001</b>
-</td><td>
+<dt>October 24, 2001</dt>
+<dd>
 Tom Tromey of Red Hat checked in the <code>javax.naming</code> and
 <code>javax.transaction</code> packages, started by Anthony Green
 finished by Warren Levy and Tom.
-</td></tr>
+</dd>
 
-<tr><td valign="top">
-<b>October 2, 2001</b>
-</td><td>
+
+<dt>October 2, 2001</dt>
+<dd>
 Tom Tromey of Red Hat has written the support code necessary to
 implement <code>java.lang.ref.*</code>.
-</td></tr>
+</dd>
+
 
-<tr><td valign="top">
-<b>September 7, 2001</b>
-</td><td>
+<dt>September 7, 2001</dt>
+<dd>
 Anthony Green of Red Hat has added a facility for compiling property
 files and other system resources into libraries and executables.
 These files are accessible to the gcj runtime via the new "core"
@@ -345,80 +344,80 @@ discovered and loaded when required.  Th
 building and deploying libraries and executables with no external file
 dependencies.  See the <code>--resource</code> option in the gcj
 manual for details.
-</td></tr>
+</dd>
+
 
-<tr><td valign="top">
-<b>August 27, 2001</b>
-</td><td>
+<dt>August 27, 2001</dt>
+<dd>
 Tom Tromey has imported RMI into libgcj.  This RMI implementation was
 implemented and donated to the Free Software Foundation by
 Transvirtual Technologies; many thanks to them for their important
 contribution.
-</td></tr>
+</dd>
 
-<tr><td valign="top">
-<b>June 18, 2001</b>
-</td><td>
-<b>GCC 3.0 has been released!</b> Everything you need to build and run GCJ is now 
+
+<dt>June 18, 2001</dt>
+<dd>
+<dt>GCC 3.0 has been released!</dt> Everything you need to build and run GCJ is now 
 included in a single source distribution. Download it from one of our
 <a href="../mirrors.html">mirror sites</a>.
-</td></tr>
+</dd>
+
 
-<tr><td valign="top">
-<b>June 4, 2001</b>
-</td><td>
+<dt>June 4, 2001</dt>
+<dd>
 Per Bothner of Brainfood Inc has implemented an invocation interface
 allowing an existing non-Java thread to start and connect to a Java
 environment.  The GCJ start-up code now uses this interface.
 Brainfood is using this to attach an Apache module to a pre-compiled
 servlet-like class.
-</td></tr>
+</dd>
 
-<tr><td valign="top">
-<b>May 30, 2001</b>
-</td><td>
+
+<dt>May 30, 2001</dt>
+<dd>
 We now have a new hash-table based lightweight lock implementation which was 
 contributed by Hans Boehm. The new code should reduce memory consumption and 
 improve performance for applications which do a lot of synchronization. 
 Currently, this code is enabled for IA-64 and X86 Linux.
-</td></tr>
+</dd>
+
 
-<tr><td valign="top">
-<b>April 25, 2001</b>
-</td><td>
+<dt>April 25, 2001</dt>
+<dd>
 Bryce McKinlay merged <tt>java.security</tt> with Classpath.
 The new package is now JDK 1.2 compliant, and much more complete.
-</td></tr>
+</dd>
+
 
-<tr><td valign="top">
-<b>March 25, 2001</b>
-</td><td>
+<dt>March 25, 2001</dt>
+<dd>
 It is now possible to call methods on Java interface references from C++ code
 via <a href="papers/cni/t1.html">CNI</a>, thanks to Bryce McKinlay's compiler
 work. <a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2001-03/msg01483.html">Details.</a>
-</td></tr>
+</dd>
 
-<tr><td valign="top">
-<b>March 25, 2001</b>
-</td><td>
+
+<dt>March 25, 2001</dt>
+<dd>
 Kevin B. Hendricks implemented the necessary FFI support to get the 
 libgcj interpreter running on PowerPC. This is now one of our fully supported 
 targets!
-</td></tr>
+</dd>
+
 
-<tr><td valign="top">
-<b>March 7, 2001</b>
-</td><td>
+<dt>March 7, 2001</dt>
+<dd>
 The first snapshot from the code branch that will become GCC 3.0 is 
 now available. Snapshots from this branch will be made weekly. These
 include everything you need to build and run GCJ, and should be much
 more stable than the main development tree -- so try them out and help us
 find bugs!
-</td></tr>
+</dd>
+
 
-<tr><td valign="top">
-<b>February 8, 2001</b>
-</td><td>
+<dt>February 8, 2001</dt>
+<dd>
 Made use of Warren Levy's change to the
 <a href="http://sources.redhat.com/mauve/">Mauve test suite</a> to handle
 regressions.
@@ -431,154 +430,154 @@ automatically run as part of a libjava
 <tt>'make check'</tt> as long as the Mauve suite is accessible
 and the env var <tt>MAUVEDIR</tt> is set to point to the top-level
 of the <a href="http://sources.redhat.com/mauve/download.html">Mauve source</a>.
-</td></tr>
+</dd>
 
-<tr><td valign="top">
-<b>January 28, 2001</b>
-</td><td>
+
+<dt>January 28, 2001</dt>
+<dd>
 The various gcj mailing lists have moved to gcc.gnu.org.
 Unused lists have been removed, and java-discuss was renamed
 to java.  See <a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/java/2001-01/msg00539.html">the announcement</a>
 for all the gory details.  With this change, the gcj project
 is now fully merged into GCC.
-</td></tr>
+</dd>
+
 
-<tr><td valign="top">
-<b>January 17, 2001</b>
-</td><td>
+<dt>January 17, 2001</dt>
+<dd>
 GCJ is now compatible with the V3 C++ ABI, thanks to the efforts of 
 Alexandre Petit-Bianco.
-</td></tr>
+</dd>
+
 
-<tr><td valign="top">
-<b>December 20, 2000</b>
-</td><td>
+<dt>December 20, 2000</dt>
+<dd>
 The Java GNATS database has been merged into the GCC GNATS database.
 The old database continues to exist but only for reference purposes;
 it is now read-only.
-</td></tr>
+</dd>
 
-<tr><td valign="top">
-<b>December 9, 2000</b>
-</td><td>
+
+<dt>December 9, 2000</dt>
+<dd>
 Thanks to Richard Henderson's recent <code>libffi</code> changes, the 
 <code>libgcj</code> bytecode interpreter is now enabled for Alpha systems.
-</td></tr>
+</dd>
+
 
-<tr><td valign="top">
-<b>December 9, 2000</b>
-</td><td>
+<dt>December 9, 2000</dt>
+<dd>
 The libgcj sources have <a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/java/2000-12/msg00102.html">
 migrated</a> to the gcc repository. We've imported
 <a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/fastjar">fastjar</a> in our
 <a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/gcc/fastjar/">tree</a>
-and use it as a replacement to zip.  </td></tr>
+and use it as a replacement to zip.  </dd>
 
-<tr><td valign="top">
-<b>December 8, 2000</b>
-</td><td>
+
+<dt>December 8, 2000</dt>
+<dd>
 The libgcj repository is now <a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/java/2000-12/msg00095.html">
 closed</a>: We're moving our sources over to the gcc
 <a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/java-announce/2000/msg00003.html">
 tree</a>. Read <a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/svn.html">here</a>
 how you will soon check your sources out.
-</td></tr>
+</dd>
+
 
-<tr><td valign="top">
-<b>November 2, 2000</b>
-</td><td>
+<dt>November 2, 2000</dt>
+<dd>
 Warren Levy has checked in code for a serialized object dumper.
 It is enabled by configuring with <code>--enable-libgcj-debug</code>
 and calling <code>System.setProperty("gcj.dumpobjects", "true");</code>
 in your test program.
 The output will be generated as the object is deserialized (i.e. the
 <code>readObject()</code> method is executed).
-</td></tr>
+</dd>
+
 
-<tr><td valign="top">
-<b>October 29, 2000</b>
-</td><td>
+<dt>October 29, 2000</dt>
+<dd>
 Bryce McKinlay checked in a large patch merging parts of the Java
 Collections code from Classpath into libgcj.  He's also been working
 on reformatting code to fit the coding standards, and tuning the
 Collections code for performance.
-</td></tr>
+</dd>
 
-<tr><td valign="top">
-<b>October 27, 2000</b>
-</td><td>
+
+<dt>October 27, 2000</dt>
+<dd>
 Warren Levy has checked in even more serialization work -- he's been
 working steadily on making object serialization compatible with Sun's
 implementation for a while now, and I believe we are quite close to
 complete compatibility.
-</td></tr>
+</dd>
+
 
-<tr><td valign="top">
-<b>October 22, 2000</b>
-</td><td>
+<dt>October 22, 2000</dt>
+<dd>
 Rolf Rasmussen has checked in a large piece of code implementing most
 of Xlib-based AWT peers as well as parts of J2D.  Bryce McKinlay has
 also been working on AWT.
-</td></tr>
+</dd>
 
-<tr><td valign="top">
-<b>September 30, 2000</b>
-</td><td>
+
+<dt>September 30, 2000</dt>
+<dd>
 Bryce McKinlay checked in a patch that enables bitmap-descriptor based 
 marking in the garbage collector. This code includes work by
 Tom Tromey and Hans Boehm, and results in some significant 
 <a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/java-patches/2000-q3/msg00161.html">
 performance gains</a> in memory-intensive code.
-</td></tr>
+</dd>
+
 
-<tr><td valign="top">
-<b>September 8, 2000</b>
-</td><td>
+<dt>September 8, 2000</dt>
+<dd>
 Warren Levy checked in various patches that provide much a more compatible
 serialization implementation.  Still some special case classes to go, but
 90% of the serializable classes should now be compatible with Sun's JDK.
-</td></tr>
+</dd>
+
 
-<tr><td valign="top">
-<b>September 6, 2000</b>
-</td><td>
+<dt>September 6, 2000</dt>
+<dd>
 Anthony Green checked in a patch to make gcj read compressed zip
 files.  He also moved zlib into the gcc tree -- the first concrete
 work towards merging the gcc and libgcj source trees.
-</td></tr>
+</dd>
 
-<tr><td valign="top">
-<b>August 20, 2000</b>
-</td><td>
+
+<dt>August 20, 2000</dt>
+<dd>
 We haven't had any news in a while, but things have still been
 happening: Anthony Green recently merged in a lot of Classpath code,
 in particular the <code>java.util.jar</code> and
 <code>java.security.cert</code> packages.  Also, Bryce McKinlay and Rolf
 Rasmussen have done a fair amount of work on <code>java.awt</code> (not
 ready for a screen shot yet, though).
-</td></tr>
+</dd>
+
 
-<tr><td valign="top">
-<b>August 3, 2000</b>
-</td><td>
+<dt>August 3, 2000</dt>
+<dd>
 Oskar Liljeblad has made the first release of
 <a href="http://gnome-gcj.sourceforge.net">gnome-gcj</a>.  This is a
 project to create a complete set of <a href="http://www.gtk.org/">Gtk+</a>
 and <a href="http://www.gnome.org/">Gnome</a> bindings for Java using
 gcj.
-</td></tr>
+</dd>
 
-<tr><td valign="top">
-<b>June 27, 2000</b>
-</td><td>
+
+<dt>June 27, 2000</dt>
+<dd>
 A new <a href="done.html">Done with GCJ</a> section was added.
 Send your GCJ stories <a href="mailto:java@gcc.gnu.org">
 here</a>.
-</td></tr>
+</dd>
+
 
-<tr><td valign="top">
-<b>May 19, 2000</b>
-</td><td>
+<dt>May 19, 2000</dt>
+<dd>
 Today we merged some major work done at Red Hat.  This included:
 <ul>
 <li> Substantial work for the IA-64 port.</li>
@@ -587,68 +586,68 @@ Today we merged some major work done at 
      (This is known not to interoperate with other implementations yet.)</li>
 <li> Miscellaneous bug fixes.</li>
 </ul>
-</td></tr>
+</dd>
+
 
-<tr><td valign="top">
-<b>May 2, 2000</b>
-</td><td>
+<dt>May 2, 2000</dt>
+<dd>
 Tom Tromey checked in the JNI stubs patch for gcj.  This patch makes
 it possible to use compiled Java code where the native methods are
 implemented using JNI.
-</td></tr>
+</dd>
 
-<tr><td valign="top">
-<b>April 22, 2000</b>
-</td><td>
+
+<dt>April 22, 2000</dt>
+<dd>
 The new <a href="projects.html">GCJ Projects</a> page is brought online.
-</td></tr>
+</dd>
+
 
-<tr><td valign="top">
-<b>April 10, 2000</b>
-</td><td>
+<dt>April 10, 2000</dt>
+<dd>
 Warren Levy checked in a JDK 1.1 compatible version of
 <a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/classpath/">Classpath's</a> <code>java.sql</code>.
 Once we have merged the necessary JDK 1.2 support, we'll update
 this to directly track Classpath.
-</td></tr>
+</dd>
 
-<tr><td valign="top">
-<b>April 8, 2000</b>
-</td><td>
+
+<dt>April 8, 2000</dt>
+<dd>
 Tom Tromey wrote most of <code>java.awt.event</code>.
-</td></tr>
+</dd>
+
 
-<tr><td valign="top">
-<b>April 3, 2000</b>
-</td><td>
+<dt>April 3, 2000</dt>
+<dd>
 Anthony Green made RPMs
 of gcj and libgcj.  See his original
 <a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/java/2000-04/msg00022.html">message</a> for some caveats.
-</td></tr>
+</dd>
+
 
-<tr><td valign="top">
-<b>March 26, 2000</b>
-</td><td>
+<dt>March 26, 2000</dt>
+<dd>
 Hans Boehm contributed a port of libgcj to the IA-64.  This port
 includes the interpreter.
-</td></tr>
+</dd>
 
-<tr><td valign="top">
-<b>March 15, 2000</b>
-</td><td>
+
+<dt>March 15, 2000</dt>
+<dd>
 Jon Beniston contributed the beginnings of a Windows port of libgcj.
-</td></tr>
+</dd>
+
 
-<tr><td valign="top">
-<b>March 13, 2000</b>
-</td><td>
+<dt>March 13, 2000</dt>
+<dd>
 Alexandre Petit-Bianco has checked in a change to the compiler to add 
 support for most JDK 1.1 language features, such as inner classes.
-</td></tr>
+</dd>
 
-<tr><td valign="top">
-<b>March 9, 2000</b>
-</td><td>
+
+<dt>March 9, 2000</dt>
+<dd>
 Warren Levy checked in the basics of the <code>java.security.*</code> packages
 that he and Tom Tromey have been putting together.  It is just the basics
 of <code>java.security</code> and some of it is indeed stubbed.  It has been
@@ -656,50 +655,50 @@ tried with the 20000120 snapshot of Cryp
 
 Please note that it is mostly JDK 1.1 based but there are some JDK 1.2
 things included.
-</td></tr>
+</dd>
+
 
-<tr><td valign="top">
-<b>March 7, 2000</b>
-</td><td>
+<dt>March 7, 2000</dt>
+<dd>
 Bryce McKinlay checked in a change to both the runtime and the
 compiler which implements constant-time interface method lookup
 and type checking.  This should provide a huge speed increase
 for programs that use interfaces or things like ``instanceof''.
-</td></tr>
+</dd>
+
 
-<tr><td valign="top">
-<b>March 6, 2000</b>
-</td><td>
+<dt>March 6, 2000</dt>
+<dd>
 We are relicensing libgcj to a more liberal license, and we're
 assigning copyright to the <a href="http://www.gnu.org/">FSF</a>.
 This will let us share code with the
 <a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/classpath/">Classpath</a> project.
-</td></tr>
+</dd>
 
-<tr><td valign="top">
-<b>March 2, 2000</b>
-</td><td>
+
+<dt>March 2, 2000</dt>
+<dd>
 Tom Tromey changed g++ to allow CNI code to catch and throw exceptions
 Java-style.  This makes it much easier to write CNI code which calls
 Java methods that throw exceptions.
-</td></tr>
+</dd>
+
 
-<tr><td valign="top">
-<b>February 25, 2000</b>
-</td><td>
+<dt>February 25, 2000</dt>
+<dd>
 Anthony Green added an important optimization to gcj.  His
 optimization eliminates redundant class initializations in some cases.
 It should speed up code which uses static methods or fields.
-</td></tr>
-<tr><td valign="top">
-<b>February 25, 2000</b>
-</td><td>
+</dd>
+
+<dt>February 25, 2000</dt>
+<dd>
 Hans Boehm has contributed an IA-64 libffi port.  This is an important
 step towards getting libgcj to run on the IA-64.
-</td></tr>
-<tr><td valign="top">
-<b>February 16, 2000</b>
-</td><td>
+</dd>
+
+<dt>February 16, 2000</dt>
+<dd>
 We've done a lot since the previous announcement, but we haven't
 mentioned it here.  Oops!  Here are some of the things we've added:
 complete reflection support, Runtime.loadLibrary,
@@ -707,18 +706,19 @@ Throwable.printStackTrace (this one is <
 a Java implementation of java.math.BigInteger, JNI (believed complete
 but still in testing), and, of course, many
 bug fixes and more minor enhancements.
-</td></tr>
-<tr><td valign="top">
-<b>September 6, 1999</b>
-</td><td>
+</dd>
+
+<dt>September 6, 1999</dt>
+<dd>
 <a href="gcj-announce.txt">One year later</a>... new web pages.
-</td></tr>
-<tr><td valign="top">
-<b>August 26, 1999</b>
-</td><td>
+</dd>
+
+<dt>August 26, 1999</dt>
+<dd>
 <a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/java-announce/1999/msg00005.html">Libgcj 2.95.1 is released</a>!  This version corresponds to the GCC 2.95.1 release.
-</td></tr>
-</table>
+</dd>
+
+</dl>
 
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