Re: [LostWages] make winehq.org HTML 4.01 Transitional + XHTML 1.0 Transitional Valid

[Dimitrie O. Paun]

On Tue, 30 Mar 2004, hatky wrote:
> Yes, this time with the patch...
>
> Change log:
>    Ofir Petruska 
>    Validate the site as HTML 4.01 Transitional + XHTML 1.0 Transitional Valid 
>    (still declaring declaring HTML 4.01 Transitional)
> - Case fixes (all html tags should be lower case)
> - Quote all attributes
> - End empty tags as " />"

Jeremy,

Please don't apply this patch to the pages I maintain:
  TODO, Fun Projects, Janitorial, Winelib, Status | Options, Status | Porting

As I've tried to explain in the past, these changes are totally unnecessary
for manually maintained pages: it makes it harder to maintain, for the benefit
of making it easier for the machine to parse. Bad tradeoff, especially given
that we maintain these pages daily, and the machine has absolutely no problem
parsing them.

Thanks.

[LostWages] make winehq.org HTML 4.01 Transitional + XHTML 1.0 Transitional Valid

[hatky]

On Tuesday 30 March 2004 18:26, Dimitrie O. Paun wrote:
> Jeremy,
>
> Please don't apply this patch to the pages I maintain:
>   TODO, Fun Projects, Janitorial, Winelib, Status | Options, Status |
> Porting

If you have to say it officially I will too:
1. The only change in your pages are class=todo to class="todo" and with other 
class name (now you can see it for your self)
2. I didn't lay ground rules that any thing written that violates these rules 
will not be accepted or anything, write what you know, and if I will be bored 
again I will patch a fix....
> As I've tried to explain in the past, these changes are totally unnecessary
> for manually maintained pages: it makes it harder to maintain, for the
> benefit of making it easier for the machine to parse. Bad tradeoff,
> especially given that we maintain these pages daily, and the machine has
> absolutely no problem parsing them.

It changes nothing for the machine, my reasons are:
1, It's good practice
2. It's future compatible with XHTML forcing this way, yet HTML allows and 
RECEMENDS this way
3. Ground rules for web programming fallow the spec as close as you can and be 
prepared to accept as many misstakes as you can, this patch fills part one

Dimi, I still don't get you, what you are saying is:
changing class=todo to class=done is considerably easier then
changing class="todo" to class="done"

If it only look the same to me then I am very sorry, I must have missed 
something........