-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 25 August 2004 01:46, Denis Barbier wrote: > On Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 10:57:57PM +0200, Tobias Toedter wrote: > > Thanks for your detailed analysis on the matter. Maybe I was a bit > > unclear in my previous message. What I meant was that the patch should > > fix newly generated files. > > This is not possible, old pages may get rebuild for many reasons (like > a change under english/template/debian), There is no smooth transition.
Ah, OK. You're of course right; unless tested, we should stay on the safe side. > And if nobody tries to generate XHTML files, bugs in wml and mp4h won't > get caught. So the best solution is to try your patch on a test > machine, and see how it works. Right. I'll see how far I get. Would you still be the contact person about bugs in wml and friends? > I forgot the last step in my previous post: if everything runs fine, one > has also to check generated XHTML files with various browsers to check > how they are rendered. I've been using XHTML for all of my recent projects. Usually, modern browsers have no diffculties in displaying the pages. I guess that by the time we perform the switch to XHTML, every browser will easily display XHTML. Anyways, this doesn't excuse us from doing a thorough check. Cheers, - -- Tobias In the beginning, there was nothing. And God said, "Let there be Light." And there was still nothing, but you could see a bit better. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBLLyhCqqEJ0Fs8twRAmAZAJ9wXimimWlcg6kHjnL3rWZowDZxYQCfXY0W k8ZrkumB38gO4CzAvQbMpDI= =Tc3l -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----