From owner-freebsd-doc Fri Sep 7 17:21:26 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (pc-62-31-42-140-hy.blueyonder.co.uk [62.31.42.140]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3932C37B401; Fri, 7 Sep 2001 17:21:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from nik@localhost) by nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (8.11.3/8.11.3) id f880DmV89899; Sat, 8 Sep 2001 01:13:48 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from nik) Date: Sat, 8 Sep 2001 01:13:48 +0100 From: Nik Clayton To: "Bruce A. Mah" Cc: Nik Clayton , Tom Hukins , doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Web site not linking to porters-handbook Message-ID: <20010908011348.Q66592@clan.nothing-going-on.org> References: <20010907152605.A43978@eborcom.com> <20010907171519.M66592@clan.nothing-going-on.org> <200109071630.f87GUS483800@intruder.bmah.org> <20010907212013.O66592@clan.nothing-going-on.org> <200109072130.f87LUtJ02431@intruder.bmah.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="h5TCuzcqTWZxfGfk" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200109072130.f87LUtJ02431@intruder.bmah.org>; from bmah@FreeBSD.ORG on Fri, Sep 07, 2001 at 02:30:55PM -0700 Organization: FreeBSD Project Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org --h5TCuzcqTWZxfGfk Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Sep 07, 2001 at 02:30:55PM -0700, Bruce A. Mah wrote: > If memory serves me right, Nik Clayton wrote: >=20 > > > Is there any preference on how new documents should refer to the FAQ = and > > > Handbook? (RELNOTESng uses full paths everywhere, or at least that w= as > > > my intent.) > >=20 > > Full paths. Way down my todo list is a sweep through the website to > > make sure it's consistent about that. >=20 > OK, sounds good. >=20 > While we're on the subject of style in URLs, what about: >=20 > http://www.FreeBSD.org/path/to/some/directory/ >=20 > versus: >=20 > http://www.FreeBSD.org/path/to/some/directory/index.html >=20 > I've seen things both ways in the Web site, with what seems to be a=20 > preference for the latter for internal Web page references and the=20 > former for external references. =2E../index.html, always, for internal links. Generally, use whatever URL the remote site used for the content in the first place. That way you can test out all the links locally, without needing to run a webserver to append the 'index.html' for you. Fixing this is even further down my list of things to do. N --=20 FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://www.freebsd.org/ FreeBSD Documentation Project http://www.freebsd.org/docproj/ --- 15B8 3FFC DDB4 34B0 AA5F 94B7 93A8 0764 2C37 E375 --- --h5TCuzcqTWZxfGfk Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iEYEARECAAYFAjuZYrwACgkQk6gHZCw343UxMACfRZFgW/aTZqDGA39z53PQFsfU lG8AoJIR0oTyvf+mGAbdzGjSEeb0v0E1 =5/lF -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --h5TCuzcqTWZxfGfk-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message