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Date:      Thu, 13 Jan 2000 09:59:03 -0500 (EST)
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Nik Clayton <nik@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        doc@FreeBSD.org, Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven <asmodai@bart.nl>
Subject:   Re: branch vs. osversion*  (was: Re: "ze" and "zp" drivers remov
Message-ID:  <200001131458.JAA12549@alsatian.cslab.vt.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20000113010742.I8876@kilt.nothing-going-on.org>

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On 13-Jan-00 Nik Clayton wrote:
> [ Ploughing through my unread mail archives <sigh> ]

heh :)

> On Fri, Dec 10, 1999 at 10:25:16AM -0500, John Baldwin wrote:
>> > Last time I talked this over with Nik we came to some sort of id="" like
>> > argument to a tag which would be os="".
> 
> Yeah.  osversionmin, osversionmax, and osversionin (which was caused
> osversionequal in the original proposal -- osversionin could take a 
> comma separated list of versions, for example).

Any ideas on ETA for this?

>> I'm also worried about readability.  If there are lots of pieces that get
>> cut
>> out, then you are going to have a document that abruptly stops and starts in
>> some places instead of flowing.  
> 
> While these attributes could be used on paragraphs, or smaller elements,
> generally I expect we'll only be using them for notes or similar.  So
> in this precise example we might pull out this entire section as necessary,
> instead of just removing a sentence or two.

Ok, as long as readability and general 'flow' is maintained I'll be happy.

> N
> -- 
>     If you want to imagine the future, imagine a tennis shoe stamping
>     on a penguin's face forever.
>         --- with apologies to George Orwell

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