Re: An HTML Announcement of perl-5.12.0 on The Perl Foundation Blog

2010-04-28 Thread Andy Lester
On Apr 28, 2010, at 11:30 AM, Shlomi Fish wrote: I converted it to XHTML using HTML tidy and some manual tweaks. Please reuse it on blogs. Done and published to Perlbuzz. Thanks! http://perlbuzz.com/2010/04/perl-512-released-perl-5-under-new-release-process.html xoxo, Andy -- Andy

Re: An HTML Announcement of perl-5.12.0 on The Perl Foundation Blog

2010-04-26 Thread Mark Mielke
On 04/25/2010 04:44 PM, Eric Brine wrote: On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 2:42 PM, Mark Mielke m...@mark.mielke.cc mailto:m...@mark.mielke.cc wrote: Closing tags gives the processor more explicit instructions on how to deal with ambiguities There are no ambiguities in valid HTML. There are

Re: An HTML Announcement of perl-5.12.0 on The Perl Foundation Blog

2010-04-26 Thread Craig A. Berry
On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 3:44 PM, Eric Brine ikeg...@adaelis.com wrote: On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 2:42 PM, Mark Mielke m...@mark.mielke.cc wrote: Closing tags gives the processor more explicit instructions on how to deal with ambiguities If you're writing HTML, write HTML. If you're writing

Re: An HTML Announcement of perl-5.12.0 on The Perl Foundation Blog

2010-04-26 Thread Philip Potter
On 25 April 2010 22:53, Mark Mielke m...@mark.mielke.cc wrote: On 04/25/2010 04:44 PM, Eric Brine wrote:    The combined open close tags such as hr/ should be used with a    space before the / to make sure it works on old and new browsers.    Try: hr / That's not valid HTML. What is

Re: An HTML Announcement of perl-5.12.0 on The Perl Foundation Blog

2010-04-26 Thread Mark Mielke
Interesting on exactly why hr / shows up as invalid in validators. Apparently I and most browser writes never learned about the SGML short tag capability. Perhaps, because we always thought of HTML as something that was *like* SGML, but definitely not actual SGML. :-) I think it is a bit odd

Re: An HTML Announcement of perl-5.12.0 on The Perl Foundation Blog

2010-04-26 Thread Mark Mielke
On 04/23/2010 05:26 PM, Eric Brine wrote: On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 5:04 PM, Shlomi Fishshlo...@iglu.org.il wrote: I'm not sure even HTML 4.0 still allows stray opening tags (such asp or td or whatever). stray? It most definitely allows the end tag to be omitted for certain

Re: An HTML Announcement of perl-5.12.0 on The Perl Foundation Blog

2010-04-24 Thread Eric Brine
On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 5:04 PM, Shlomi Fish shlo...@iglu.org.il wrote: On Friday 23 Apr 2010 18:40:38 Eric Brine wrote: On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 5:49 AM, Shlomi Fish shlo...@iglu.org.il wrote: Thanks for providing it. However, it is not XHTML/XML-compliant Correct, HTML is not

Re: An HTML Announcement of perl-5.12.0 on The Perl Foundation Blog

2010-04-24 Thread Eric Brine
On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 12:53 PM, Shlomi Fish shlo...@iglu.org.il wrote: Hi all! So far the only announcement of perl-5.12.0 has been to the perl5-porters mailing as plaintext E-mail. It was copied in LWN.net: http://lwn.net/Articles/383203/ But it's still mostly plaintext there. A Google

Re: An HTML Announcement of perl-5.12.0 on The Perl Foundation Blog

2010-04-24 Thread Eric Brine
On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 5:49 AM, Shlomi Fish shlo...@iglu.org.il wrote: Thanks for providing it. However, it is not XHTML/XML-compliant Correct, HTML is not compatible with XHTML. In fact, I couldn't make it make it compliant with both HTML and XHTML because I used HR. Is this HTML required

Re: An HTML Announcement of perl-5.12.0 on The Perl Foundation Blog

2010-04-24 Thread Denny
On Thu, 2010-04-22 at 19:53 +0300, Shlomi Fish wrote: Hi all! So far the only announcement of perl-5.12.0 has been to the perl5-porters mailing as plaintext E-mail. It was copied in LWN.net: http://lwn.net/Articles/383203/ Also here: http://perlisalive.com/articles/42 Regards, Denny

Re: An HTML Announcement of perl-5.12.0 on The Perl Foundation Blog

2010-04-23 Thread Shlomi Fish
Hi Eric, On Thursday 22 Apr 2010 20:14:49 Eric Brine wrote: On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 12:53 PM, Shlomi Fish shlo...@iglu.org.il wrote: Hi all! So far the only announcement of perl-5.12.0 has been to the perl5-porters mailing as plaintext E-mail. It was copied in LWN.net:

Re: An HTML Announcement of perl-5.12.0 on The Perl Foundation Blog

2010-04-23 Thread Shlomi Fish
On Friday 23 Apr 2010 18:40:38 Eric Brine wrote: On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 5:49 AM, Shlomi Fish shlo...@iglu.org.il wrote: Thanks for providing it. However, it is not XHTML/XML-compliant Correct, HTML is not compatible with XHTML. It is not completely (as far as standalone tags are

An HTML Announcement of perl-5.12.0 on The Perl Foundation Blog

2010-04-22 Thread Shlomi Fish
Hi all! So far the only announcement of perl-5.12.0 has been to the perl5-porters mailing as plaintext E-mail. It was copied in LWN.net: http://lwn.net/Articles/383203/ But it's still mostly plaintext there. A Google search for perl-5.12.0 yields no good result for an HTML announcement. I

Re: An HTML Announcement of perl-5.12.0 on The Perl Foundation Blog

2010-04-22 Thread Gabor Szabo
http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl5/index.cgi?news_perl_5_12 has a collection of links to the announcements about 5.12 in various languages. Please update the page with link to further announcements. Gabor