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From: |
Therese Godefroy |
Subject: |
www/server fsf-html-style-sheet.html |
Date: |
Wed, 9 Aug 2017 09:42:25 -0400 (EDT) |
CVSROOT: /webcvs/www
Module name: www
Changes by: Therese Godefroy <th_g> 17/08/09 09:42:25
Modified files:
server : fsf-html-style-sheet.html
Log message:
Update to fit current practices; s/HTML/XHTML/ at line 258.
CVSWeb URLs:
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/server/fsf-html-style-sheet.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.72&r2=1.73
Patches:
Index: fsf-html-style-sheet.html
===================================================================
RCS file: /webcvs/www/www/server/fsf-html-style-sheet.html,v
retrieving revision 1.72
retrieving revision 1.73
diff -u -b -r1.72 -r1.73
--- fsf-html-style-sheet.html 27 Jun 2017 06:48:10 -0000 1.72
+++ fsf-html-style-sheet.html 9 Aug 2017 13:42:24 -0000 1.73
@@ -5,8 +5,7 @@
<!--#include virtual="/server/banner.html" -->
<h2>The GNU/FSF Web Site Guidelines</h2>
-<p>These are style guidelines for writing WWW web pages in HTML for
-the GNU web server.</p>
+<p>These are style guidelines for writing web pages for the GNU server.</p>
<p>The standards documented here are the default for the GNU
project website. All pages should appear this way by
@@ -81,7 +80,7 @@
those with slow Internet access or text-only browsers.</li>
<li>Offer a document in as many formats as the GNU Project has it.
-For an example, see <a href="/copyleft/fdl.html">The GNU Free
+For an example, see <a href="/licenses/fdl.html">The GNU Free
Documentation License</a>. This lets the user get the document in the
format most useful to him.</li>
@@ -110,9 +109,9 @@
W3C standards.</li>
<li>A boilerplate for web pages, especially project web pages, is provided:
-<a href="/server/standards/boilerplate.html">view formatted</a>,
-<a
href="http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/*checkout*/www/server/standards/boilerplate.html?root=www&content-type=text%2Fplain">view
source</a> (with
-server-side includes intact).</li>
+<a
href="http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/*checkout*/www/server/standards/boilerplate.html?root=www&content-type=text%2Fplain">
+view source</a> (with server-side includes intact). Pages using the
+boilerplate must be valid XHTML.</li>
<li>Acronyms/abbreviations:
<ul>
@@ -150,8 +149,8 @@
<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
-elements</a> such as <HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE>
-<BODY>, etc. when using (X)HTML, and always include the
+elements</a> such as <html> <head> <title>
+<body>, etc. when using (X)HTML, and always include the
appropriate DTD or Schema reference. This appeases overly pedantic
browsers.</li>
@@ -162,27 +161,27 @@
always finds this contact information at the same place on each
page.</li>
-<li>The first header tag, <H[n]>, should have its text
-duplicated at the start of the <TITLE> tag. The <TITLE> tag
+<li>The first header tag, <h[n]>, should have its text
+duplicated at the start of the <title> tag. The <title> tag
is used by many browsers in menus like the history and bookmarks lists,
as a link to that page. It helps the user to have them the same, so when
he clicks on an item in a list, he gets a page with the same
-"TITLE". Please properly use your headers in numerical order: 1, 2,
+“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 <TITLE> tag should include the phrases "GNU Project"
-and "Free Software Foundation" so the pages will be found
-when WWW search engines are used. The default is to add this at the
+<li>The <title> tag should include the phrases “GNU Project”
+and “Free Software Foundation” so the pages will be found
+when web search engines are used. The default is to add this at the
end: <code> - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation</code>.</li>
-<li>The <HEAD> pair should have this line after the
-<TITLE> pair:<br />
-<LINK rev="made" href="mailto:address@hidden"><br />
+<li>The <head> pair should have this line after the
+<title> pair:<br />
+<link rev="made" href="mailto:address@hidden"><br />
Some browsers use this information to allow users to easily report
problems they find on a page.</li>
-<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
+<li>On pages with dated entries (e.g., 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:
@@ -195,7 +194,7 @@
<a href="http://www.stallman.org/">Richard Stallman</a>
<a href="mailto:address@hidden"><address@hidden></a><br />
It is less confusing to the user, because it's clear what is a
-http: link to another WWW page and what is a mailto: anchor that
+http: link to another web page and what is a mailto: anchor that
will bring up a mail form to fill out and send, if this is
supported by the client. Also, if the user saves a copy of the
page, he will have a copy of the e-mail address he can use, without
@@ -256,7 +255,7 @@
marked for accessibility.</li>
<li>SGML and XML are case sensitive. TITLE and title are not the
-same thing in HTML. (This means that text/html and
+same thing in XHTML. (This means that text/html and
application/xhtml+xml are mutually exclusive, which also means that
strictly speaking XHTML and HTML are mutually exclusive.)</li>
@@ -297,8 +296,8 @@
file to handle this.</li>
<li>Don't use just a directory name in a URL; always include the
-specific file name. E.g., use "/gnu/gnu-history.html" not just
-"/gnu/". Never use "index.html" in a URL. Both of these are kindnesses
+specific file name. E.g., use “/gnu/gnu-history.html” not just
+“/gnu/”. Never use “index.html” in a URL. Both of
these are kindnesses
to the users, as browsers change the highlighting on a link if a user
has already seen it. If the link is known by several different file
names, the user will not get a highlighted link on the file names the
@@ -322,7 +321,7 @@
<ul>
<li>The use of graphics should be minimized, so pages load fast
over slow links, especially animations. The GNU Project is for
-everyone, even those with slow Internet access and/or text-only WWW
+everyone, even those with slow Internet access and/or text-only web
browsers.</li>
<li>In the past, GIFs have had patent problems. However, now that
@@ -371,7 +370,7 @@
TEXT from adjacent text, and help the user realize that this is a
stand-in for a graphic.</li>
-<li>Use width and height attributes for in-line images, but not in
+<li>Use width and height attributes for fixed-width in-line images, but not in
ISO HTML:<br />
<img src="/graphics/*.jpg" alt=" [Image of DESCRIPTIVE TEXT] "
width="999" height="666" />.<br />
@@ -384,7 +383,7 @@
on our pages.</li>
<li>Sometimes it can be useful to add some HTML tags, for example
-with <SPAN> and CSS, that gives a broader "white" area around
+with <span> and CSS, that gives a broader “white” area around
a block of text. This can be used to draw more attention to one
block in the text.</li>
</ul>
@@ -400,7 +399,7 @@
"http://www.anybrowser.org/campaign/">Best Viewed with Any
Browser</a> campaign.</li>
-<li>Basic info on the WWW and its technical specifications can be
+<li>Basic info on the web and its technical specifications can be
found at <a href="http://www.w3.org/">The World Wide Web
Consortium</a>.</li>
@@ -473,7 +472,7 @@
<p class="unprintable">Updated:
<!-- timestamp start -->
-$Date: 2017/06/27 06:48:10 $
+$Date: 2017/08/09 13:42:24 $
<!-- timestamp end --></p>
</div>
</div>
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