Re: [boost] [review] Review of Outcome v2 (Fri-19-Jan to Sun-28-Jan, 2018)

Subject: Re: [boost] [review] Review of Outcome v2 (Fri-19-Jan to Sun-28-Jan, 2018)
From: Steven Watanabe (watanabesj_at_[hidden])
Date: 2018-01-23 22:35:43

AMDG

On 01/23/2018 03:22 PM, Niall Douglas via Boost wrote:
>>> The particular theme I chose requires a real web server, it doesn't work
>>> from a file:// address. Hence no point in bundling documentation that
>>> you can read locally in the tarball.
>>
>>   Frankly, I find this completely ridiculous.
>> It's also goes against Boost's documentation
>> guidelines:
>>
>> http://www.boost.org/development/requirements.html#Documentation
>>
>>   "The format for documentation should be HTML, and
>> should not require an advanced browser or
>> server-side extensions"
> 
> 1. No server side extensions are needed. It's a static website.
> 

So, why exactly can't you generate static html?

> 2. Standard HTML5 is generated throughout. It (very slightly) fails
> validation currently due to using <center>, but I'll be upgrading to the
> latest release of the theme after the review which should fix that.
> 
> It ticks all the mandatory boxes in the requirements you link to.
> 

In Christ,
Steven Watanabe