[drupal-docs] XHTML in our documentation - Textile, Markdown, ...

[Chris Messina]

My recommendation for using <pre><code> comes from the recent
presentations about "micro-formats" at SxSW. The idea is essentially
to make regular XHTML more semantic w/o resorting to custom DTDs (ok,
fine, I'm moving away from that idea now! ha!).

Check out the related presentations:

* Tantek Celik: http://tantek.com/presentations/2005/03/elementsofxhtml/
* Eric Meyer:  http://complexspiral.com/events/archive/2005/sxsw/
* Technorati Microformats: http://developers.technorati.com/wiki/MicroFormats

I think that Drupal should start supporting these and developing our
own shareable standards to make the job of themers easier. But that's
a separate discussion I won't launch into here unless you want to talk
about them w/r/t documentation standards.

Chris

On Sun, 20 Mar 2005 20:08:41 +0100, Steven Wittens <steven at acko.net> wrote:

> By the way, codefilter automatically checks if a code tag contains
> linebreaks, and if so, adds a box wrapper. We should avoid pre as it
> will cause wrapping issues. And using overflow: auto; is a recipe for
> disaster in tableless themes unfortunately.
> 
> Steven Wittens
>