Folks--
I just now removed the CVS date reference from the top of the support
index page. It was repeated at the bottom as well, which is where we
normally place these as near as I can tell. So, hopefully, this will
solve this little dilemma.
Bernd Eilers wrote:
Lane Miles wrote:
Hi All,
Hi Lane,
On the support.openoffice.org page, below the content header, the date
is messed up. It is shown as, $Date: 2007/12/07 03:58:36 $. I don't
know if the date is even supposed to be there. If it is, I quote the
HTML from the page.
<span class="modified">$Date: 2007/12/07 03:58:36 $</span>
the $Date: .... $ thing is pure CVS magic.
If you have a $Date:$ String somewhere in your document this will
automatically be replaced by $Date: 2007/12/07 03:58:36 $ when the page
is first checked into the CVS source code control repository and
automatically replaced by a newer date everytime a new version is
checked into the source code control repository.
However, it should read:
<span class="modified">Date: 2007/12/07 03:58:36</span>
If we now just change that to <span class="modified">Date: 2007/12/07
03:58:36</span> this would mean that now every user changing the page
would have to manually(!!!!) change that date value also which might
often be forgotten instead of this happening automatically.
I do also think that this doesn´t look good on that HTML page tough.
Such $Date:$ might be acceptable in a comment in source code but is not
so good for an HTML page displayed to end users. Thus i would like to
propose a third variant which keeps the CVS magical handling intact but
beautifies the page at least for those users which do have javascript
enabled.
<span id="modified" class="modified">$Date: 2007/12/07 03:58:36 $</span>
<script type="text/javascript">
if( document.getElementById )
elem = document.getElementById("modified");
else if( document.all )
elem = document.all["modified"];
else if( document.layers )
elem = document.layers["modified"];
if ( elem ) {
lastmod=elem.firstChild.data;
elem.firstChild.data=lastmod.substring(1,lastmod.length-2);
}
</script>
Sincerely,
Lane
Kind regards
Bernd Eilers
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