From: Craig A Summerhill (craig@cni.org)
Date: Thu Mar 18 1999 - 06:11:52 CST
I have a comment about the formatting on the index pages. I noticed this
last week when I started working with the 2a code, but didn't say anything.
Environment:
Alpha w/Digital Unix 4.0a
hypermail2a16-pl0
apache 1.3.4
Netscape Communicator 4.51
On this system, the key at the top and bottom of the all the index pages
are all getting collapsed into a single line, which makes it kind hard
to read, IMHO.
To see what I mean, take a look at:
http://www.cni.org/Hforums/cni-copyright/1999-01/
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
I think the reason has to do with the fact that Daniel reformatted the
index output to remove the bullet points <LI>. In past versions (2.0b2
and prior), the HTML for this stuff was displayed with line breaks
because it was wrapped as an unordinated list.
e.g.
<UL>
<LI><STRONG>About this archive</STRONG>
<LI><STRONG>Messages sorted by:</STRONG>
<A HREF="author.html">[ author ]</A>
<A HREF="date.html">[ date ]</A>
<A HREF="thread.html">[ thread ]</A>
<LI><STRONG>Other mail archives</STRONG>
</UL>
However, the new version removes the <LI> and <UL> tags, and this causes
the information to be collapsed. I think this makes it a little hard
to read/comprehend...
e.g.
<STRONG>About this archive</STRONG>
<STRONG>707 Messages sorted by:</STRONG>
<A HREF="author.html">[ author ]</A>
<A HREF="date.html">[ date ]</A>
<A HREF="thread.html">[ thread ]</A>
<STRONG>Other mail archives</STRONG>
I'd like to suggest that a <BR> be inserted at the end of each of these
lines. I think it will make the index key more readable...
Is there any objection to this?
-- Craig A. Summerhill, Systems Coordinator and Program Officer Coalition for Networked Information 21 Dupont Circle, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036 Internet: craig@cni.org AT&Tnet (202) 296-5098