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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


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