Re: closing </p> tags
On Tue, Aug 14, 2001 at 02:33:49PM +0200, Gerfried Fuchs wrote:
> > You do commits just for that and you die. (c) someone, can't remember :)
>
> O.k., so not even between the update cylcles (so the page won't be run
> a second time)?
Say again?
> On the other hand, if I find typos in the english version, shouldn't I
> update them, too?
That's different. With such changes, you actually fix something that users
see.
> Of course I still won't make commits just for adding the </p>, but if it
> goes with typo-fixing.
Well, no. With English typos, translators can generally ignore them and just
bump the version. If you mix that with formatting changes, which you're
saying they shouldn't ignore, one has to parse through the diff. Which means
work, and which nobody likes :)
> Or I might annoy the maintainer of the english
> pages (whoever that might be - hints welcome ;)
> - it's not on /devel/website/translation_coordinators
It's debian-www :)
> > There are a few million ways to annoy translators, but changing a lot of
> > formatting in the original is one of the worst. (Believe me, I've both done
> > it and suffered from it :)
>
> Alright - as said above you might be correct. But it annoys me when I
> see stupid formating that seems to lack the basic html knowledge. It
> *hurts* (and I'm not really talking about missing </p> currently).
For example?
There's a difference between changing the structure of a piece of HTML to
make it proper, and adding an otherwise automatically added tag, don't you
think?
> > Well, it looks to me like something that can be inserted automatically,
> > and in fact browsers already do it.
>
> It's not always obvious where a paragraph should be closed. Like - can
> a <hX> be in a paragraph and so on. It should help the browser too to
> render it better and faster, I guess.
That's true, but these cases don't crop up often...
> > So while everybody will agree to this in principle I don't see how
> > you'll get people who aren't used to doing it to do it. :)
>
> I might be going to send thosepeople that update english pages without
> adding them a mail for each file. Feel free to be annoyed, maybe the
> one or the other gives in and adds the tags the next time ;)
Well, resorting to spam-nagging people is quite unlikely to get you many
friends.
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