[Mailman-Developers] Styling patch

Sun May 13 01:23:03 CEST 2007

Ethan Fremen wrote:

> For pages that are "generated" rather than hand-edited, I propose we use 
> this doctype as of 2.2:
> 
> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
> "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">

And with 3.0 I would like to see the following:

* All pages served as xhtml strict with Content-type: 
application/xhtml+xml . This is "problematic" in that you lose 
document.write() in javascript but beneficial in that you actually get 
an infoset (meaning you can mix, eg, MathML and XHTML or XHTML and SVG.)
(Maybe with a little helper function that checks included JS for 
deprecated member access.)

* All through-the-web editing using some wysiwyg editor like Kupu, with 
fallback plain-text editing and handholding well-formedness checks.

* Serve non ttw pages via webdav with "source port" or "source path" if 
necessary.

* Deprecate CSS_FILES & JS_FILES in favor of whatever our dynamic 
templates say.

Now that I think about it, I think I would prefer having a HEAD_HTML 
variable that is a string or one-line-per-list-element variable in 2.2 
that had the <link> and <style> elements written out in order to make 
deprecation easier, and to support all the spiffy oddness one might want 
to put in the head element.

~ethan