Of CSS and XHTML

Cory 'G' Watson gphat at cafes.net
Thu Dec 4 20:26:42 UTC 2003


On Dec 4, 2003, at 2:07 PM, Christopher Hicks wrote:

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> It's sad that someone wanting to migrate bugzilla to current standards
> which make any web-based project much better gets portrayed as someone
> trying to "mungle things to your taste".  What Cory is trying to do is
> rather clearly good for bugzilla from numerous technical perspectives.
> In this case standards compliance clearly leads to massive 
> improvements in
> ease of maintenace, ease of development, and helps support folks with
> dissabilities.  I hope Cory has the will to outpersistent the legacy 
> HTML
> stalwarts.  If so, bugzilla will be much better for it.

Thanks for the support!

I plan to start from the first page and work my way around, submitting 
small, simple patches that slowly improve the markup of the pages.  The 
huge CSS patches people are submitting seem difficult to fit into the 
schedule, due to sheer size.

Expect my first today or tomorrow.

Cory 'G' Watson

"The universal aptitude for ineptitude makes any human accomplishment 
an incredible miracle." - Dr. John Paul Stapp




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