pretty mailman listinfo pages?

[Felix Miata]

On 2014-04-23 10:40 (GMT-0400) Ahmed Fathy Hussein composed:

> I've updated the page to include all the edits you suggested.

There's still the gray text problem, and inordinate whitespace, but its respectful 
text sizes are clearly friendlier than your previous versions.

>  The problem
> with strict DTD is that elements like <center> should not be used. It still
> renders correctly in Chrome and Firefox but I'm not sure this would be the
> case in other browsers.

This is KDE. It has its own browser, Konqueror, which arguably should be the first 
choice in testing kde.org pages (in both WebKit and KHTML modes). In spite of its 
lack of png support it looks perfectly usable in Netscape 4.61 here. In Konq3 and 
Gecko 1.8.x I see no differences from Gecko 26 or 29 to suggest failure to validate 
would be an actual problem with the HTML Mailman produces.

Neither is there a compelling need to use a strict doctype, since the Mailman code 
seems to have its genesis long ago when transitional was commonplace, all the common 
browsers that remain trustworthy are familiar with it.

>  I can't stop using <center> as this is put
> automatically in mailman templates and I can't replace it. Do you have any
> suggestions regarding this or should I go back to Transitional?

Mailman is FOSS written primarily in Python. Templates can be modified. If there's no 
one in the KDE resource pool willing and able to do it, maybe comment in existing bug 
https://bugs.launchpad.net/mailman/+bug/266261 or 
https://bugs.launchpad.net/mailman/+bug/266802 or if you don't think either on point 
closely enough, file a new bug to induce the problem to be fixed upstream.
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