- From: olivier Thereaux <ot@w3.org>
- Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2009 17:05:12 -0500
- To: Ville Skyttä <ville.skytta@iki.fi>
- Cc: public-qa-dev@w3.org
Hi Ville, On 5-Feb-09, at 4:50 PM, Ville Skyttä wrote: > I was about to tag and upload link checker 4.4 to CPAN, but in final > tests I > found a problem with image URLs. My bad, thanks for noticing the problems. > 1) Use absolute URLs for images, point them at www.w3.org or > validator.w3.org > as appropriate, remove all images from the tarball. The problem > with this is > that it isn't necessarily too nice for local installations, > especially in > offline mode (although that's a pretty rare use case). And it also > means > local installations will have broken links if things move around or > disappear > on validator.w3.org. BTW this problem (?) also exists for the > donations > program javascript (also for local validator setups). I strongly believe the donation program JS should remain as an absolute link to www.w3.org (for safety reasons...) but as far as images and stylesheets are concerned, I think local copies would probably make more sense. Hence a vote for 2). > 2) Bundle all used images in the docs/ dir in tarball, and adjust > relative > URLs in link checker to point to them. Means some things are > duplicated on > validator.w3.org (unless someone customizes the version running > there wrt > these URLs), and content negotiation for image formats cannot be > used because > the links should work even when viewing say docs/checklink.html from > local > filesystem. Duplication is no big deal (I think), and if we have to go without negotiation, so be it. -- olivier
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