2012/2/5 Alexey Borzov <borz_...@cs.msu.su>: > Hi, > > I'm currently trying to make HTML generated by PhD_PEAR conform to HTML5 > spec and fix a few more annoying problems with it. > > Most of the HTML-generating code, however, lives in PhD or Phd_Generic > packages. Of course I can override that code in PhD_PEAR, but a cleaner > solution will be to change it right there. Specifically, I am speaking about > * Using presentational tags like <b>, <i>, <tt> in Package_Generic_XHTML. > These can be trivially changed to <strong>, <em>, <code>. > * Package_Generic_XHTML insists on adding align="left" to all <td> tags not > having an explicit align attribute and valign="middle" tag to all <tr> tags > not having an explicit valign attribute, see e.g. source of the doc page > here [1]. Is there some reasoning behind this or can this be removed? > * Table-related attributes (where they are actually needed) should be > converted to CSS styles. > > So the question is: can I change the relevant parts in PhD / PhD_Generic? I > don't see any bad consequences, but I may be missing something.
You need to be very careful when you changed the generated html, even from <b> to <strong> as there could be lots of CSS specifically targeting these elements. In theory it shouldn't be an issue, but its something that needs to be reviewed before a release at least. Also, when moving inline presentation elements out to a css can be a tricky thing, as we don't automatically link to a stylesheet in the generation. I think its great that you want to update this, so by all means go for it. > Also, whom should I contact about pushing a release of PhD_* packages when > I'm done with this stuff? Generally me or Moacir. -Hannes
