Eric Kow <[email protected]> writes: > On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 00:31:52 -0700, Trent W. Buck wrote: >> A do-over of the one-big-patch I made some time ago. I've tried to >> put the most contentious changes last, so that they won't kibosh the >> others due to dependency issues. >> >> I also refrained from rewriting the introductory text at all, since >> that was the area that seemed to be bike-shedded most. >> >> Oh, and I checked it against a graphical browser this time (webkit), >> and tried harder to preserve the visual layout there. > > Good thinking.
I dropped a copy at http://code.haskell.org/~twb/tmp/{before,after}.html if people with other engines want to compare them. >> Sat May 16 15:13:26 EST 2009 Trent W. Buck <[email protected]> >> * Capitalize Darcs' name. > > Applied! Somebody should update the Wikipedia entry. > > I'm a bit attached to the old way, but my job here is to just go > with the flow here. Wikipedia says that the convention is not to capitalize Darcs, but it doesn't give a rationale. That's why I've quietly ignored it and adopted the English language convention :-) >> Sat May 16 15:22:56 EST 2009 Trent W. Buck <[email protected]> >> * Don't abuse <table> as presentational markup (use CSS instead). >> This should improve the rendering on tty, print and handheld media, >> without (hopefully) changing much on conventional screens. > > I think this is good in principle, but I'm leaving this to Mark + > marketing. I think this is really a question of "does this look abysmal on anyone's browser?" If it makes my browsers look better at the expense of a market share browser rendering it incorrectly, then I'll have to put up with the table-based kludge that's currently there. _______________________________________________ darcs-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/darcs-users
