On Fri, 29 Sep 2000, Rodent of Unusual Size wrote: > Raymond S Brand wrote: > > > > This change bothers me, but I don't have a strong objection to it. > > Yes, it's not particularly friendly to require someone to have > to drill down just to find out he can't use something. Please > reconsider this, Joshua.
Given that people feel that way, I'll reverse it. However, I disagree with your logic. You are essentially assuming that people with Apache 1.2 are going to be coming to the website and trying to use the 1.3 docs, and that we should be trying to make life very easy for them. (There was one module that was added during 1.3.whatever, but that is clearly the exception.) I have left in the information that tells people which modules are obsolete, so they won't have to go looking through mod_cookies or mod_log_common. In my opinion, the information people are much more likely interested in having "at a glance" is whether they can actually use a module "right now". This would be the "status" rather than the "compatibility". The presence of compatibility in this index seems to be a historic artifact, rather than a planned decision. I addition, the presence of that extra bit of information made the index considerably busier visually, and therefore harder to skim. Anyway, unless you change your mind, I will reverse it. Joshua.
