Re: [boost] Re: A Formal Review Request

From: Beman Dawes (beman_at_[hidden])
Date: 2000-10-11 11:27:26

At 11:22 AM 10/11/2000 -0400, David Abrahams wrote:

 >> To me it seems only fitting that a group committed to writing
 >> standard-conforming C++ would produce standard-conforming HTML.
 >
 >I totally agree with the intention. But it certainly seems like it could 
be
 >a serious additional barrier to entry at boost, an idea which I don't 
like
 >at all. I hear that most of the automated tools generate garbage, by an
 >HTML-expert's standards, but I'm not sure I do any better by hand. I sure
 >wish someone else would weigh in on this; I don't know enough to speak 
with
 >authority.

I have a lot of trouble understanding how the boost web site could even 
function without using automated tools.  FrontPage (the site maintenance 
tool I use internally to maintain the web site) does quite a large number 
of things for us automatically that would be impractical by hand.  And 
because it is a single integrated package, it is very easy to use.  I 
notice from the HTML that comes in from other people that they also often 
use similar tools, rather than just whacking away at HTML by hand.

--Beman