On 5/16/2009 7:30, Trent W. Buck wrote:
I dropped a copy at http://code.haskell.org/~twb/tmp/{before,after}.html
if people with other engines want to compare them.
For the most part it looks good. I don't really care strongly for the
max-width and would be fine with letting the document flow to the
browser window, perhaps with a nice margin/padding, but that's something
we can debate later and isn't a big deal.
I would add a little bit of styling to the DL's DT, DD, because,
frankly, the defaults are generally terribly unreadable in most
graphical browsers (not enough white space, not enough emphasis to the
terms). At the very least I would add to the style sheet:
dt { color: #494a82; font-weight: bold; }
I think it is also a good idea to add a larger margin around the
elements, as well, preferably by wrapping the DD contents in Paragraph
tags or possibly just adding to the style sheet:
dd { margin-top: 0.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; }
The only other issue that I see, is that for some reason both browsers
I'm looking at (Firefox 3.0 and IE8) seem unhappy with the "spontaneous
branches" link, and I'm not sure why (it certainly is acceptable XHTML).
In IE8 the link and following text appear to wind up in their own
separate DD. In Firefox it is worse and the link and following text
appear to be in a separate paragraph altogether (losing the indentation
of the previous DD).
I've tried playing with it, but can't get it to work. Perhaps it's a
known quirk of XHTML strict (I've only ever claimed Transitional on my
own documents) and maybe there is a reason that both browsers are
showing such unusual behavior.
Rewriting it to something like:
<dd><p>Originally developed by physicist David Roundy, darcs is
based on a unique algebra of patches. This smartness lets you
respond to changing demands in ways that would otherwise not be
possible.</p>
<p><a
href="http://wiki.darcs.net/DarcsWiki/SpontaneousBranches";>Spontaneous
branches</a> are a good example of using the pattern matching
and cherry picking abilities of darcs.</p></dd>
That at least looks well in IE8, but is still odd in Firefox because the
second paragraph is still losing its indentation from the DD. I'm going
to give up for now; hooray for 'standards'. It's odd, though, that both
Firefox and IE seem to agree that links imply line breaks in a DD in
XHTML strict.
--
--Max Battcher--
http://worldmaker.net
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