Re: [HACKERS] FAQ/HTML standard?

2005-09-11 Thread Robert Treat
On Saturday 10 September 2005 12:10, Andrew Dunstan wrote: > Is there an HTML standard that we try to follow in our HTML docs such as > FAQs? > > If there isn't an explicit standard, may I suggest that we adopt XHTML > 1.0 as the standard? > Really the FAQ files need to be able to validate when vi

Re: [HACKERS] FAQ/HTML standard?

2005-09-11 Thread Jochem van Dieten
On 9/11/05, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > On Sat, Sep 10, 2005 at 14:31:06 -0400, Andrew Dunstan wrote: >> >> XHTML is simply a minimal reformulation of HTML in XML, and even uses >> the HTML 4.01 definitions for its semantics. Given that, it's hard to >> see why it should be considered a bad thing. >

Re: [HACKERS] FAQ/HTML standard?

2005-09-10 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Sun, Sep 11, 2005 at 00:56:11 +0200, Peter Eisentraut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Bruno Wolff III wrote: > > > XHTML is simply a minimal reformulation of HTML in XML, and even > > > uses the HTML 4.01 definitions for its semantics. Given that, it's > > > hard to see why it should be considere

Re: [HACKERS] FAQ/HTML standard?

2005-09-10 Thread Petr Jelinek
Bruno Wolff III wrote: Here is the article: http://www.hixie.ch/advocacy/xhtml XHTML 1.0 pages has no problems with displaying when sent as text/html and they are better served as text/html because stupid IE won't show it right when you set mime type to application/xhtml+xml. So if you con

Re: [HACKERS] FAQ/HTML standard?

2005-09-10 Thread James William Pye
On Sat, 2005-09-10 at 17:12 -0400, Neil Conway wrote: > Bruno Wolff III wrote: > > I ran accross an article a few weeks ago that suggested that this wasn't > > all that great of an idea. Using HTML 4.01 should be just as useful. > > Is there a reason why the FAQ can't be in DocBook, like the rest

Re: [HACKERS] FAQ/HTML standard?

2005-09-10 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Bruno Wolff III wrote: > > XHTML is simply a minimal reformulation of HTML in XML, and even > > uses the HTML 4.01 definitions for its semantics. Given that, it's > > hard to see why it should be considered a bad thing. > > Here is the article: > http://www.hixie.ch/advocacy/xhtml While I believe

Re: [HACKERS] FAQ/HTML standard?

2005-09-10 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Sat, Sep 10, 2005 at 14:31:06 -0400, Andrew Dunstan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Bruno Wolff III wrote: > > >On Sat, Sep 10, 2005 at 12:10:19 -0400, > > Andrew Dunstan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > >>Is there an HTML standard that we try to follow in our HTML docs such as > >>F

Re: [HACKERS] FAQ/HTML standard?

2005-09-10 Thread Neil Conway
Bruno Wolff III wrote: I ran accross an article a few weeks ago that suggested that this wasn't all that great of an idea. Using HTML 4.01 should be just as useful. Is there a reason why the FAQ can't be in DocBook, like the rest of the documentation? That would allow multiple output formats t

Re: [HACKERS] FAQ/HTML standard?

2005-09-10 Thread Tino Wildenhain
Am Samstag, den 10.09.2005, 12:59 -0500 schrieb Bruno Wolff III: > On Sat, Sep 10, 2005 at 12:10:19 -0400, > Andrew Dunstan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Is there an HTML standard that we try to follow in our HTML docs such as > > FAQs? > > > > If there isn't an explicit standard, may I s

Re: [HACKERS] FAQ/HTML standard?

2005-09-10 Thread Andrew Dunstan
Bruno Wolff III wrote: On Sat, Sep 10, 2005 at 12:10:19 -0400, Andrew Dunstan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Is there an HTML standard that we try to follow in our HTML docs such as FAQs? If there isn't an explicit standard, may I suggest that we adopt XHTML 1.0 as the standard? I r

Re: [HACKERS] FAQ/HTML standard?

2005-09-10 Thread Jeff MacDonald
On Sat, 2005-09-10 at 12:59 -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > On Sat, Sep 10, 2005 at 12:10:19 -0400, > Andrew Dunstan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Is there an HTML standard that we try to follow in our HTML docs such as > > FAQs? > > > > If there isn't an explicit standard, may I suggest

Re: [HACKERS] FAQ/HTML standard?

2005-09-10 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Sat, Sep 10, 2005 at 12:10:19 -0400, Andrew Dunstan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Is there an HTML standard that we try to follow in our HTML docs such as > FAQs? > > If there isn't an explicit standard, may I suggest that we adopt XHTML > 1.0 as the standard? I ran accross an article a

[HACKERS] FAQ/HTML standard?

2005-09-10 Thread Andrew Dunstan
Is there an HTML standard that we try to follow in our HTML docs such as FAQs? If there isn't an explicit standard, may I suggest that we adopt XHTML 1.0 as the standard? Also, I notice non-breaking spaces inserted in apparently odd spots in FAQ_MINGW.html - is there a particular reason fo