www/server fsf-html-style-sheet.html

[Karl Berry]

CVSROOT:        /web/www
Module name:    www
Changes by:     Karl Berry <karl>       08/06/04 22:14:51

Modified files:
        server         : fsf-html-style-sheet.html 

Log message:
        http://ftp.gnu.org now, #363977

CVSWeb URLs:
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/server/fsf-html-style-sheet.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.40&r2=1.41

Patches:
Index: fsf-html-style-sheet.html
===================================================================
RCS file: /web/www/www/server/fsf-html-style-sheet.html,v
retrieving revision 1.40
retrieving revision 1.41
diff -u -b -r1.40 -r1.41
--- fsf-html-style-sheet.html   25 Dec 2007 13:30:11 -0000      1.40
+++ fsf-html-style-sheet.html   4 Jun 2008 22:14:27 -0000       1.41
@@ -94,15 +94,15 @@
 "http://www.gnu.org/";). This makes it easier to copy and paste
 "&lt;a href="s from other pages, and also makes it easier to set up
 mirror servers.</li>
+
 <li>It is ok to omit the file name entirely when referring to a tag
 in the same file.</li>
-<li>When the link points to another page on the GNU server, omit
-the word "http:" at the beginning. In other words, use "http:" only
-before a host name.</li>
+
 <li>Collections of files produced automatically from Texinfo source
 contain links with relative file names. They always refer to
 another file in the same directory. These relative links are to be
 tolerated.</li>
+
 <li>To make it easier to edit many files at once in Emacs:
 <ul>
 <li>Try and give each HTML file a unique name.</li>
@@ -140,20 +140,24 @@
 server-side includes intact).</li>
 
 <li>Acronyms and abbreviations should be added in the form where the first 
acronym or abbreviation in a section (ie. under a heading) is displayed in full 
- &lt;acronym title="Alfred M. Szmidt"&gt;ams&lt;/acronym&gt; but later 
occurences would simply be &lt;acronym&gt;ams&lt;/acronym&gt;</li>
+
 <li>Regarding character encoding, in general, the use of 8 bit
 unicode makes life easy on our translators, so when using XHTML,
 UTF-8 is preferred as a general rule. When using HTML please keep
 in mind the W3C recommendation and the appropriate character set
 respective to the language in question.</li>
+
 <li>We support the <a href=
 "http://www.anybrowser.org/campaign/";>Best Viewed with Any
 Browser</a> campaign, and WAI.</li>
+
 <li>Please be considerate of all who access our web pages, and
 accomodate them, including those who use text-only browsers, or old
 browsers. We wish to prevent HTML design that looks great under one
 version of one browser, and ugly under many others. Of course,
 please don't install any of the proprietary software browsers
 available if you don't already use them anyway.</li>
+
 <li>Please follow the above mentioned web standards strictly. Don't
 neglect <a href=
 "http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/global.html#h-7.1";>required
@@ -161,10 +165,12 @@
 &lt;BODY&gt;, etc. when using (X)HTML, and always include the
 appropriate DTD or Schema reference. This makes up for overly
 pedantic browsers.</li>
+
 <li>All pages should have contact info for both the FSF (or
 responsible party) and the webmasters at the bottom of each page.
 The reason to note this at the bottom is so the user always finds
 this contact information at the same place on each page.</li>
+
 <li>The first header tag, &lt;H[n]&gt;, should have its text
 duplicated at the start of the &lt;TITLE&gt; tag. The &lt;TITLE&gt;
 tag is used by many browsers in menus like the history and
@@ -173,10 +179,12 @@
 page with the same "TITLE". Please properly use your headers in
 numerical order: 1, 2, etc. These are not used for looks, but for
 the organization of the document.</li>
+
 <li>The &lt;TITLE&gt; tag should include the phrases "GNU Project"
 and "Free Software Foundation (FSF)" so the pages will be found
 when WWW search engines are used. The default is to add this at the
 end: " - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation (FSF)".</li>
+
 <li>The &lt;HEAD&gt; pair should have this line after the
 &lt;TITLE&gt; pair:<br />
 &lt;LINK rev="made" href="mailto:address@hidden"&gt;<br />
@@ -185,6 +193,7 @@
 <li>On pages with dated entries (e.g. What's New, Thank GNUs, and
 GNU's Bulletins, the newer entries should be first (i.e reverse
 chronological order).</li>
+
 <li>Cite people with e-mail addresses this way:
 <pre>
 &lt;a href="http://www.stallman.org/rms.html"&gt;Richard Stallman&lt;/a&gt;
@@ -204,16 +213,12 @@
 <li>Cite FTP locations of source code with the full URL of the
 directory they are in:
 <pre>
-&lt;a 
href="ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/"&gt;&lt;URL:ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
+&lt;a 
href="http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/foo"&gt;http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/emacs&lt;/a&gt;
 </pre>
 which browsers display this way:<br />
 <a href=
-"ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/";>&lt;URL:ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/&gt;</a><br />
+"http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/";>http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/emacs</a><br />
 
-It is less confusing to the user, because it's clear that it's
-source code to download, not a http: link to another WWW page.
-Also, if the user saves a copy of the page, he will have a copy of
-the FTP location he can use, without going back to his web broswer.
 We encourage FTP sites to use a directory for each package, and
 only put one package's files in each directory, so that the users
 can see what versions of that package and related information can
@@ -221,12 +226,14 @@
 available, documentations, fonts, etc.). Also, it means that the
 FTP location URLs do not need to be changed, on this and other
 sites, as new versions are released into that directory.</li>
+
 <li>There is no reliable way to make a non-breaking space in HTML.
 Despite the standard, many browsers out there don't understand
 <strong>&amp;nbsp;</strong>. Some browsers (such as DosLynx) use
 the Operating System current codepage so even if you use
 <strong>&amp;#160;</strong> -- the ISO Latin-1 code -- it still
 won't look right.</li>
+
 <li>If you specify any color attribute, you should specify all of
 them that are allowed for that tag. This is because some browsers
 allow users to specify defaults for the color attributes, and the
@@ -372,13 +379,13 @@
 README</a> for information on coordinating and submitting
 translations of this article.</p>
 <p>Copyright &copy; 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2001, 2003, 2004, 2005,
-2006, 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor,
+2006, 2007, 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor,
 Boston, MA 02110, USA</p>
 <p>Verbatim copying and distribution of this entire article are
 permitted worldwide, without royalty, in any medium, provided this
 notice, and the copyright notice, are preserved.</p>
 <p>Updated: <!-- timestamp start -->
-$Date: 2007/12/25 13:30:11 $
+$Date: 2008/06/04 22:14:27 $
 <!-- timestamp end --></p>
 </div>
 <div id="translations">