[stdlib-sig] Breaking out the stdlib

Tue Sep 15 21:58:25 CEST 2009

Michael Foord wrote:
> Benjamin Peterson wrote:
>> 2009/9/15 Georg Brandl <georg at python.org> schrieb:
>>  
>>>> On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 11:35, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>      
>>>>> Le mardi 15 septembre 2009 à 19:27 +0100, Michael Foord a écrit :
>>>>>        
>>>>>> Two examples of deprecated modules in the Python documentation:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> http://docs.python.org/library/md5.html
>>>>>> http://docs.python.org/library/mimewriter.html
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The deprecation notice could be stronger / more prominent.
>>>>>>           
>>>>> Perhaps deprecated modules can get some kind of greyish style
>>>>> (background and/or font). Georg, is it possible? :)
>>>>>         
>>> The whole document? Seems a bit too intrusive to me, and there is no
>>> obvious
>>> connection to the deprecation if the deprecation notice is still hard
>>> to see.
>>>     
>>
>> Wouldn't a flashing red background with a scrolling marquee in a
>> gothic font be more effective?
>>
>>
>>
>>   
> +1 for <blink><marquee> on the whole document...

Those were deprecated a long long time ago by the W3C:
http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG10/

Today, you have to use a different concept for this called "CSS"
and the new syntax goes like this:

<body style="text-decoration:blink;">...</body>

That's just as annoying, but hey, it's standards conform ;-)

Hmm, now why didn't they just remove it altogether...

(sorry, couldn't resist)
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