467698 - XPCOM docs are poorly formed HTML wise

Status: VERIFIED WONTFIX

(Core :: XPCOM, defect)

Description

[Tyler Downer [He/Him]]

The docs use old <i>, <b> tags, and are not XHTML complaint.

Comment 1

[Tyler Downer [He/Him]]

Attachment: Readme Patch v1

This simply brings the readme to compliance with the W3C XHTML standard.

Comment 2

[Tyler Downer [He/Him]]

Attachment: Docs Patch v1

This is a separate patch for the docs, doing much the same thing as above.

Comment 3

[Benjamin Smedberg]

Comment on attachment 351103 [details] [diff] [review]
Readme Patch v1

Changes of this sort are not worth accepting. Please don't use XHTML unless absolutely necessary for some other reason.

Comment 4

[Tyler Downer [He/Him]]

Well, if you do not want to update these to XHTML for some reason, then maybe the content should be brought up to date?
As configure says, 
>Apply the patch in bugzilla bug 129216</a>. (If this bug is marked as FIXED, it >probably means there is no need to apply the patch and that these docs are out of
>date)
That bug is FIXED, so this reference could at least be removed. At least this is what it seems like.

Comment 5

[Benjamin Smedberg]

Yes, content fixes are welcome. Please don't mix them up with markup fixes, which are usually unwelcome. Although it probably makes sense to remove these files from version control and put them up on developer.mozilla.org

Comment 6

[Tyler Downer [He/Him]]

 Bug 470575 is one moving to dmo.