www/server/staging/standards gnu-website-guidel...

[Therese Godefroy]

CVSROOT:        /webcvs/www
Module name:    www
Changes by:     Therese Godefroy <th_g> 21/02/26 10:59:44

Modified files:
        server/staging/standards: gnu-website-guidelines.html 

Log message:
        More on requirement for valid XHTML. 

CVSWeb URLs:
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/server/staging/standards/gnu-website-guidelines.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.34&r2=1.35

Patches:
Index: gnu-website-guidelines.html
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RCS file: /webcvs/www/www/server/staging/standards/gnu-website-guidelines.html,v
retrieving revision 1.34
retrieving revision 1.35
diff -u -b -r1.34 -r1.35
--- gnu-website-guidelines.html 26 Feb 2021 14:18:33 -0000      1.34
+++ gnu-website-guidelines.html 26 Feb 2021 15:59:43 -0000      1.35
@@ -306,7 +306,9 @@
 in it.</li>
 
 <li>The templated pages must follow the <a
-href="https://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/";>XHTML-1.0 guidelines</a>.</li>
+href="https://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/";>XHTML-1.0 guidelines</a>. This is
+absolutely essential for translated pages that are maintained as PO
+files.</li>
 
 <li>Our <abbr title="Server-Side Include">SSI</abbr>s declare UTF-8 as the
 character encoding; using any other encoding is problematic.<br />See the
@@ -406,7 +408,7 @@
 <li>Consider others linking to your page when either removing an element
 that carries an <code>id</code> attribute, or changing an <code>id</code>.
 Place the old one on a block element nearby. If there is no suitable
-element, add one. Here is a typical example from the Philosophy main page:
+element, add one. Here is an example from the Philosophy main page:
 
 <pre class="emph-box">
 <samp>&lt;!-- please leave both these ID attributes here. ... --&gt;
@@ -419,8 +421,9 @@
 &lt;/div&gt;</samp>
 </pre>
 
-Please avoid moving the old <code>id</code> to a translatable string.
-Translators will thank you!</li>
+Please avoid moving the old <code>id</code> to a translatable string,
+unless there is no other way to keep the markup valid. Translators will
+thank you!</li>
 </ul>
 
 
@@ -1358,7 +1361,7 @@
 
 <p class="unprintable">Updated:
 <!-- timestamp start -->
-$Date: 2021/02/26 14:18:33 $
+$Date: 2021/02/26 15:59:43 $
 <!-- timestamp end --></p>
 </div>
 </div><!-- for class="inner", starts in the banner include -->