Date: Sat, 17 May 2003 09:01:33 -0700 From: "Bruce A. Mah" <bmah@FreeBSD.org> To: freebsd-ia64@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD/ia64 5.1-BETA Hardware Notes Page Preview Message-ID: <20030517160133.GA3594@intruder.bmah.org> In-Reply-To: <20030517035050.GA27183@sixshooter.v6.thrupoint.net> References: <20030513204720.GA20034@sixshooter.v6.thrupoint.net> <20030514000418.GA735@athlon.pn.xcllnt.net> <20030514162611.GA64570@intruder.bmah.org> <20030514182153.GB553@athlon.pn.xcllnt.net> <20030514183751.GA65771@intruder.bmah.org> <20030514190332.GC553@athlon.pn.xcllnt.net> <20030517035050.GA27183@sixshooter.v6.thrupoint.net>
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If memory serves me right, Jim Brown wrote:
> <Side Note>
> Color was fun; we should do more of that. Note- I only changed
> the HTML source on this page and added corresponding entries in the
> local docbook.css stylesheet, not the SGML originals. I just wanted to see
> if I could get table headings in different colors. If you like it,
> we should be able to work it in. I used classes.
> </Side Note>
Interesting work!
I'm going to play devil's advocate in just this one message just to
air a couple of concerns. Regardless, I'm glad you are working on
this stuff.
1. We don't want to make the meaning of the table dependant on color
(especially in HTML). Two reasons:
o Some people have difficulty visually distinguishing colors.
o I don't want to lose the ability to have meaningful,
decent-looking dead-tree versions of documents, which are
usually rendered in PostScript or PDF.
2. As you know, we try to keep the hardware notes as MI as possible,
so I want to make sure that your changes still fit into this
framework. (Maybe the premise that we can have mostly-MI
release documentation is a mistake, but that's another issue.)
Do you have the SGML sources for your changes available somewhere?
I'd like to think about folding some of these back into the sources.
How closely are you tracking the HEAD sources?
Thanks!
Bruce.
PS. I marked you as the owner of the "ia64 hardware notes" task on
the 5.1 release TODO list, so don't be surprised if you see your name
there. :-)
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