Re: patch -- HTML export bug


Subject: Re: patch -- HTML export bug
sterwill@abisource.com
Date: Thu Feb 10 2000 - 22:30:04 CST


sam th wrote:
> The attached patch fixes bug 629 (<p> vs <br> in HTML) and adds some html
> tags we were missing (<head>, <body>, etc). I also changed <DIV> tags
> to <div>. Now, with approporiate <!DOCTYPE..> declarations, our HTML
> export parses as valid HTML 4.01, and as valid XHTML 1.0. Additionally,
> it renders indentically on every netscape browser from 3.0 to Mozilla (pre
> 5.0). I know there are people who don't like this idea, but I think we
> should add a declaration that our documents are XHTML to the export code.
> Those suggesting a seperate XHTML exporter should be aware that the
> <!DOCTYPE> would be the ONLY difference between the two.
> Also, I changed the suffix-recognizer to recognize .htm as well as .html.
> I know that .htm is evil, but there are people who use it. Thus, we
> should at least recognize it.

Committed (sorry for the delay, still digging out of the 0.7.8 release
work). I haven't gone through Bugzilla and marked these for QA, feel
free to do so.

-- 
Shaw Terwilliger



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