discuss: Thread: Re: TARPL news 2005 week 23

Hello,

No news for week 22 but this weeks work has resulted in the
first release of the new HOWTO Generator. Briefly:
  - It uses the new set of categories determined by Gerd Berget
  - it allows up to 3 categories per document
  - it now uses CSS
  - the W3C validator has problems with JavaScript generated HTML
    and makes lots of non-constructive complaints.
  - accessibility is improved though WebXACT (formerly Bobby) test
    not is fully approved
   o  priority 1 checks out with no errors and a few warnings
   o  some errors and warnings seem misplaced, I believe infact
      there are a few minor bugs in the validator
   o  a lot of effort was spent on this causing minor bloat
  - only minor testing has been performed
   o  Mozille 1.7.7 and Firefox 1.0.1 and 1.0.4 seem to work fine
   o  IE 6.0 SP2 cannot get data from pulldown categories
   o  IE also renders radio boxes using CSS strangely
   o  Opera has not been tested yet
   o  Safari, Konqueror will have to be tested by others
   o  full toolchain has not been tested.
  - Some more work is needed on tidying all sections
  - It is sufficient flexible that it allows for major rework
    of chapters with little effort. I believe David Lawyer had
    an alternative set of suggestions.

This is therefore just a preview but comments are welcome,
particularly regarding CSS, JavaScript and the errors and warnings
noted in the validators.

As usual you will find the updates on the prototyping page

	http://www.nyx.net/~sgjoen/tarpl.html


Regards,
    Stein Gjoen