Happy Valentines Day, mpt. Here's a big KISS just for you.
Your points are well made. However, as usual, your tone is so
needlessly confrontational that it makes you sound like a 10 year old.
> Don't lie to me. I always have style sheets disabled, and (if I disable
> Javascript until the main page has loaded, to get around the browser
> blocking) I can read your documents just fine, with no choking whatsoever.
Not true. I have some <pre> blocks which have a css border and background applied to
them.
4.x ignores all the line breaks in the <pre> unless I remove the css, which pretty
much kills
the example. Also, 4.x chokes on the javascript which I use in the abbreviations
appendix. Fixing
both of these is possible, and I'll get to it someday.
> Don't (blah blah blah...) and don't (blah blah blah...) Grrr...
I wrote these documents a while ago and, after sitting on them for a while,
wanted to get them posted asap. I realized that I had badly broke some primitive
html-writing contentions. I've gotten this nasty habit of using CSS for everything I
do,
throwing all the "structural" html elements in the trash. With a few exceptions, the
gratuitous uses of CSS you pointed out were done simply to make my html look cleaner,
and to enhance the visual presentation.
Yesterday, I realized that the documents would break on some browsers, but was more
interested in
getting them out to the world quickly. Right now, the majority of my target audience,
probably
won't mind using Mozilla. In the near future, I will certainly fix the documents to
be more
widely available. Please note that these are very early drafts. Heck, they aren't
even on
mozilla.org yet!
- Joe
