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Re: web page status
On Fri, Oct 04, 2002 at 09:30:57AM -0500, Benjamin Kosnik wrote:
> > In the long-term, if the pages should match to the main GCC wwwdocs and be
> > pre-processed to add the headers, then maybe there should be a way to add
> > similar headers to the sources and generate docs for offline viewing?
> > (If there isn't a way to do this I might have just given myself something
> > else to do. Oops)
>
> There should always be a way for people to view docs off-line. That
> capability is of major importance.
I agree.
> It sounds to me that the best solution is to just add the headers to the
> sources and don't do any on-the-fly processing.
That's my opinion too, relying on server-magic to make valid docs makes me
uncomfortable - I can see the advantage of being able to change the
standard footers and styles etc easily, but the DOCTYPE is slightly more
important than just decoration and should be present at all times. IMHO.
jon
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