Re: [Phpwiki-talk] standards-compliant lists

[Jeff D. <da...@da...>]

On Thu, 15 Nov 2001 17:13:41 +0100
"Tara Star" <te...@cl...> wrote:

> no <font>, please! Use <ins> and <del>, and specify visual aspect in 
> css. Please please please!

Thanks for the hint.  :-)

These things would, of course, be "configurable" (even if that means
editing the source.)  Consider, though, that some of us still need to
support older browsers.  (AFAIK, Netscape 4.x doesn't support <ins>,
<del> at all.)

I suppose it would be possible to add an additional output layer
(only when needed) which would, e.g., translate <del> to <strike>,
etc...  (Of course XSLT is the real solution, but we're putting that
off for reasons specified elsewhere.)

I guess what I'm proposing is that we could write a cheesy/hacky
output translator which would allow us to move towards cleaner XHTML
output from the main PhpWiki code.  When it comes to pass that
PHP supports XSLT better, we'd drop the cheesy translator in favor
of real XSLT.

Just thinking out loud, mostly.  It's probably more trouble than
it's worth.