On Wednesday 14 November 2001 16:55, Stas Bekman wrote: > Robin Berjon wrote: > > On Wednesday 14 November 2001 03:27, Perrin Harkins wrote: > >>Maybe we should give the horse a chance to catch up to the cart... > >> > >>Once there is a design that people are satisfied with, you are more than > >>welcome to submit patches to fix validation problems. > > > > Agreed, but it's far easier to start cleanly. Fixing "designer-code" can > > be insanely hard and time consuming. "Be strict in what you..." and all > > that. > > May be I was not clear. You can change whatever you want in the > templates. There is no design at this moment! Scratch what you see and > make a new one.
Stas, maybe it's me that wasn't clear :-) When I said "designer-code", I didn't mean _your_ code, I meant something that someone would submit that wouldn't be clean (X)HTML. > In any case if you look at the templates, they are bare bones. So it > shouldn't be time consuming and of course it's not insanely hard. I > think you didn't look at the source before saying what you've said. I didn't say that ! I was answering (what I understood from) Perrin's email that said that maybe people should submit their design in whatever form they want (ie with whatever degree of code cleanliness) and once we have a good design we can clean that up. I'm not against that approach, but I think it's easier to have clean code to start with (again, in the submissions made to the contest, I wasn't referring to your code _at_all_). You want the templates to be editable in a text editor, and I think that's a very good requirement. Clean code to start with will make that a lot easier. Also, this is not the web of '95 anymore. Gradually, HTML is having a chance of becoming less of a dirty word. I'm suggesting we do our small part in helping progress. -- _______________________________________________________________________ Robin Berjon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- CTO k n o w s c a p e : // venture knowledge agency www.knowscape.com ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Radioactive cats have 18 half-lives.
