Henri Sivonen wrote:

>   I suspect that the misuse of HTML is due to use of "WYSIWYG" editors
>   that encourage the user to use <font> and <b> instead or real headers 
>   and to overuse <blockquote>.

This has a (bad) reason: See bug 44741.

>     do we have to take into
>     account the use of authoring tools

Yes, since we produce one :).

>     whose behavior is in conflict
>     with the standards-compliance goals of Mozilla?

Then let's fix the tool :). Seriously, Mozilla's composer doesn't 
encourage :-(, but allows use of structural formatting (only).

>   * Should we attempt to convert the existing presentational soup into
>     standards-compliant HTML?

No. Too much work.

> 4) New documents that need to be written

That's orthogonal. Please let's focus on the overhaul.

> 5) Does the site need to be build using something else than CVS?

Please do not substitute CVS with something else. We are know CVS already.

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