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Subject:Re: Firefox vs IE - help From:Amy Gale <amyg -at- grammatech -dot- com> To:'TECHWR-L' <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Mon, 30 Jul 2007 15:25:44 -0400
Chris Borokowski wrote:
>Yes, but:
>
>1. Most web pages are script-generated anyway.
>
>
I'm not sure that this is strictly relevant. A page-generating script
can put in a CSS reference and subsequent classing tags, and it
maintains consistency between script-generated and hand-generated
content, and between pages generated by different scripts. For example,
the following excerpts are from two scripts that make up part of my
software manual build.
[perl - used for generating C API docs]
#...
$head->push_content(HTML::Element->new('link',
'href'=>$args{'css'},
'rel'=>'stylesheet',
'type'=>'text/css'));
#...
my $newelt = HTML::Element->new($el,
'class' => $cl);
#...etc
[xslt - used for generating Scheme API docs]
<!-- ... --/>
<xsl:template match="my-top-level-hierarchy">
<html>
<head>
<title><xsl:value-of select="@my-desc"/>My Grammar for
<xsl:value-of select="@my-language"/></title>
<link href="../../my.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
<!-- ... etc --/>
(some names changed)
Since I feed both scripts the same stylesheet reference and use that
reference for hand-generated content too, the manual has a single
consistent look. Nobody who didn't know our processes would ever be able
to spot the seams, as it were.
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