Re: Patch for Makefile.common [Was: Re: New page for devel/website]
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On Wednesday 25 August 2004 01:46, Denis Barbier wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 10:57:57PM +0200, Tobias Toedter wrote:
> > Thanks for your detailed analysis on the matter. Maybe I was a bit
> > unclear in my previous message. What I meant was that the patch should
> > fix newly generated files.
>
> This is not possible, old pages may get rebuild for many reasons (like
> a change under english/template/debian), There is no smooth transition.
Ah, OK. You're of course right; unless tested, we should stay on the safe
side.
> And if nobody tries to generate XHTML files, bugs in wml and mp4h won't
> get caught. So the best solution is to try your patch on a test
> machine, and see how it works.
Right. I'll see how far I get. Would you still be the contact person about
bugs in wml and friends?
> I forgot the last step in my previous post: if everything runs fine, one
> has also to check generated XHTML files with various browsers to check
> how they are rendered.
I've been using XHTML for all of my recent projects. Usually, modern
browsers have no diffculties in displaying the pages. I guess that by the
time we perform the switch to XHTML, every browser will easily display
XHTML. Anyways, this doesn't excuse us from doing a thorough check.
Cheers,
- --
Tobias
In the beginning, there was nothing. And God said, "Let there be
Light." And there was still nothing, but you could see a bit better.
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