--On 1 March 2006 00:52:09 +0100 Giuliano Gavazzi dev+lists@humph.com wrote:
Hello,
I have recently installed mailman. As a result of customising the user interface, I have noticed that the HTML of both the administrative and user interface is quite incorrect. In particular the user interface, which shows many layers of intervention (tags appear with too many case changes!). I am attempting to clean up the code (as HTML 4.01 Transitional), but I wonder if there is already an ongoing tidying up or redesign that would make my work a waste of time.
One change in Mailman that would make correction and editing of HTML templates easier would be to have all Mailman inner tags written without using <> or other strange characters. For instance <MM-Form- End> could be simply MMFormEnd.
Perhaps a comment could be used instead:
<!-- MMFormEnd -->
This way a template could validate as valid HTML without being parsed first, as long as these Mailman tags are not required in strange places. Clearly the documents could loose its validity once parsed, but this too can be avoided with careful design of the tags. For instance the footer tag (I think <MM-Mailman-Footer>) generates at the moment incorrect HTML all by itself and so cannot be corrected by a list administrator.
I see now that there is a General Web UI item in the TODO. Let me add a plea: please do not use php for the future UI!
Well, it's a Python project, so you should be safe there!
Thanks
Giuliano
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