At 14:29 12/12/2000 +0200, Henri Sivonen wrote:
>I think there are five core issues:
>
>1) The overall site structure
>
> We need a lot of brainstorming in this area.
>
>2) The structure of the documents (HTML)
>
> I have taken a loog at the source of a number of pages at
> www.mozilla.org. Sadly, the rule seems to be that they are almost
> entirely presentational and lacking stylable structure. To put it
> bluntly, Mozilla itself is among the best in terms of standards
> compliance, but the documents at www.mozilla.org are, in general,
> bad HTML.
>
> 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>. (Most likely the culprit is 4.x Composer.)
>
> Straight-forward mozilla.org HTML guidelines could be written in order
> to promote standards-compliance and site-wide stylability. However,
> this would only work if people used the right kind of tools.
I think contributors should only be expected to contribute content, not
style. Which is why the content should be held in a database (k, you could
use an XML variant, the database could give you versioning as well though),
and generated with whatever styling is decided upon. Submission then
becomes a cycle of contribution/critique then insertion into the database
at whereever in the heirarchy.
Simon
