Re: Debian WWW CVS: peterk
On Sun, Nov 12, 2000 at 11:21:08PM +0100, Josip Rodin wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 12, 2000 at 08:22:54PM +0100, Debian WWW CVS wrote:
> > Changes by: peterk 00/11/12 20:22:54
> >
> > Modified files:
> > english/MailingLists: HOWTO_start_list.wml
> >
> > Log message:
> > Fixed broken HTML (<ol> cannot contain <p>, only <li>)
>
> There you go again, picking strict standard compliance instead of page
> looking good. I'd rather have HTML that makes all the checkers go bezerk
> than to have pages that simply don't look good in most browsers. The way
> how we convey the information to users matters, not what W3C or whoever
> else thinks the code should look like.
>
> The <p>s were there because otherwise there's lack of spacing between items.
> I tested it in three console browsers and two X browsers before making those
> changes -- it was most definitely an intentional change.
>
> Can you make it look correctly _and_ be standards compliant?
Replace those <p> by <br> ?
Denis
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