- From: John Russell <ve3ll@rac.ca>
- Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2001 18:27:11 -0500
- To: www-amaya@w3.org, www-amaya-dev@w3.org
The method Amaya uses for maintaining conformant code makes it impossible to hold on to designers pretty formatting. This may be why meta tags lose their linefeeds. May I suggest that at least linewrapping after a set number of characters be done as it is for the rest of the document. This will allow keywords and description tags to be readable and not make document 500 characters plus wide ;-] ;-] In addition the entire line breaking mechanism should be studied. Right now if one inspects the amaya generated codes, one finds that the th tag will wrap after the first word always EVEN IF THE LINE is short enough to be a one liner. Also the /li tag tends to pull a word to the next line as an orphan. And anchor elements are broken in a most unreadable way isolating the <a part from the rest. A better break spot is after the closing > before the text/img string. There is also no user configurable setting for line length. I would rather maintain my own code in a READABLE form which was the original intention of HTML. But some attention to formatting of source may be a nice project for someone. If there are set rules or at least a common philosophy of how code should be prettied, i would like to know as it would be a nice project as a side utility.... file conversion projects are my forte so if someone has ideas on what 'prettyprint' means in html please let me know.... all i see are 'dirtyprint' examples except for my own of course ;-] ;-] John Russell, VE3LL@RAC.CA http://www.cgocable.net/~jrussel Be sure to check your HTML markup code tags by using http://validator.w3.org or http://www.htmlhelp.com/tools/validator/
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