Bug#74058: www.debian.org: Search link should just be removed.

2000-10-05 Thread Craig Small
On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 02:06:48AM -0400, James Mastros wrote: > The "search" list in the header hasn't worked for at least a year. It would > probably a lot of people from clicking on the link, and being annoyed. And > annoying people is not somthing we're purticuarly interested in doing. > OTOH

Re: Mailing list archive searches

2000-10-05 Thread Timothy Bedding
Josip Rodin > What exactly needs regenerating, how old are the outdated pages? I can tell you that a search in "Apr to Jun 00" failed today if that helps. Regards Tim

Free Search Engine Report?

2000-10-05 Thread Sameer
FREE REPORT Is your website at the top of the major search engines? It needs to be! If it isn’t you are missing out on serious amounts of web traffic and business! Did you know that 85% of web traffic originates from search engines? AND did you know that 98.2% of searches do not go past the t

Re: lots of unneeded  s in our templates' define-tags

2000-10-05 Thread Josip Rodin
On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 11:39:20AM -0600, Anthony Fok wrote: > > Why do we need so many non-breaking-spaces in the tags? There's not much > > point in e.g. defining MENUWIDTH to have a fixed width for the right column > > of the front page, then. IMHO they just make the templates harder to read. >

Re: lots of unneeded  s in our templates' define-tags

2000-10-05 Thread Anthony Fok
On Thu, 5 Oct 2000, Josip Rodin wrote: > > Why do we need so many non-breaking-spaces in the tags? There's not much > point in e.g. defining MENUWIDTH to have a fixed width for the right column > of the front page, then. IMHO they just make the templates harder to read. > > They don't have any ef

lots of unneeded  s in our templates' define-tags

2000-10-05 Thread Josip Rodin
Hi, Why do we need so many non-breaking-spaces in the tags? There's not much point in e.g. defining MENUWIDTH to have a fixed width for the right column of the front page, then. IMHO they just make the templates harder to read. They don't have any effect on `whitespace=delete' option of , althoug

Re: Debian WWW CVS: peterk

2000-10-05 Thread Josip Rodin
On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 02:23:02PM +0200, peter karlsson wrote: > > Strong or bold, doesn't seem to make much difference to me... > > Strong can be interpreted by an aural browser, bold cannot. Oh. Never thought of that. > > No, Netscape (and I.E. IIRC) displays as text indented on both > > sid

Re: Debian WWW CVS: peterk

2000-10-05 Thread peter karlsson
Josip Rodin: > Strong or bold, doesn't seem to make much difference to me... Strong can be interpreted by an aural browser, bold cannot. > Do you have an exact reference to that part of the specification (e.g. URL)? http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/present/graphics.html#h-15.2 Hmm, it says that they

Re: Debian WWW CVS: peterk

2000-10-05 Thread Josip Rodin
On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 11:20:52AM +0200, peter karlsson wrote: > > How exactly is evil? > > It is visual markup, in contrast to which is logical. Strong or bold, doesn't seem to make much difference to me... > And is depreciated in HTML 4.0, which we supposedly following. Do you have an exa

Bug#39452: New urls

2000-10-05 Thread Brock Rozen
The new url is http://www.debian.org/Packages/stable/non-us/apache-ssl.html which takes me to http://cgi.debian.org/cgi-bin/get-changelog?package=apache-ssl which tells me no changelog is available -- Brock Rozen [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#38922: New URL

2000-10-05 Thread Brock Rozen
The new url is http://www.debian.org/Packages/stable/non-us/ssh.html and it takes me to http://cgi.debian.org/cgi-bin/get-changelog?package=ssh which gives me nothing. -- Brock Rozen [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#74058: www.debian.org: Search link should just be removed.

2000-10-05 Thread James Mastros
Package: www.debian.org Version: 20001005 Severity: wishlist The "search" list in the header hasn't worked for at least a year. It would probably a lot of people from clicking on the link, and being annoyed. And annoying people is not somthing we're purticuarly interested

Re: Debian WWW CVS: peterk

2000-10-05 Thread peter karlsson
Josip Rodin: > How exactly is evil? It is visual markup, in contrast to which is logical. And is depreciated in HTML 4.0, which we supposedly following. > And why is better than ? For the same reason. > You should have just replaced it with , that would make the same > effect, although it

Re: Debian WWW CVS: peterk

2000-10-05 Thread Josip Rodin
On Wed, Oct 04, 2000 at 02:46:14PM -0400, Debian WWW CVS wrote: > CVSROOT: /cvs/webwml > Module name: webwml > Changes by: peterk 00/10/04 14:46:14 > > Modified files: > english/devel/website: uptodate.wml > > Log message: > Cleaned up markup ( is evil, How exactly is evil? And

Re: Mailing list archive searches

2000-10-05 Thread Josip Rodin
On Wed, Oct 04, 2000 at 04:11:36PM -0500, Cesar Mendoza wrote: > > From: Timothy Bedding <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > These searches do not seem to be working for older pages. > > > > Is this a configuration problem that is known about? > > Assuming it is, is it something