[Koha-devel] Re: HTML files

[Chris Cormack]

On Tue, Jan 21, 2003 at 03:37:27PM +0000, Ambrose Li said:
> In article <20030121093649.GS19500 at beastie.bofh.dk>,
> Bobby Billingsley  <bobby at billingsley.dk> wrote:
> [...]
> 
> >Also, the tidy program seems to do a nice job of converting
> >style-type tags into style properties/CSS - is this desireable?
> 
> My personal opinion is that this is only partly desirable. Part
> of an open-source OPAC's strengths is that it can be run on a
> text browser. If we drop all "style-type" tags, we lose B, U,
> INS, DEL, HR, etc. (tags that can degrade gracefully on a text
> browser); CSS styles can't be trusted to do all the tasks we
> assume they can do.
> 
> If Koha does not use B, U, INS, DEL, or HR, I guess converting
> the style-type tags to CSS is then indeed desirable.
> 
Hi Guys

I think what we can do is both :-) Thats where the themes come in.
IE each set of templates lives in theme/language

So we could have a textonly/en/  or textonly/dk  for the text based browsers.
And fancy styles etc for others?

Whatcha reckon?

Chris
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