[linux-audio-user] "Linux fx box how to" WAS: some thoughts about Linux audio software documentation

[tim hall]

Last Saturday 14 August 2004 22:59, LinuxMedia was like:
> >>Everyone has facilities to read plain text and html.
>
> BTW... if you write the docs, I can do the html. I know people always
> say "it's not big deal because html is so basic". But I took a course on
> it and there *are* hints that make a page load faster (and other
> important things). There are tecniques that most people don't know about
> and aren't obvious or "common sense". I created a web page of my
> sister's wedding and (one) of the comments I got (a lot) was "the thing
> loads so fast".

True, anyone can learn to hack up an HTML page in an afternoon. Writing clean, 
efficient HTML may, as they say, take a little longer. ;-)

> <OT>
> I'm not familiar with the O'Reilly book that Dave mentioned, but I was
> so impressed with "HTML For The World Wide Web" (Elizabeth Castro) that
> I showed it to a couple of the students in the Web Site Management class
> and they ditched the book the instructors gave us. It is the best manual
> in *any* topic I've ever had. It is truely a "reference manual" in the
> actual spirit of the idea of a reference manual. Once you read it, you
> can *actually* go to the page on a particual part and never have to
> cross reference another page.
>
> BTW... It's a book on HTML 4.0. There's probly many more advanced
> meathods of creating a page now. But I prefer HTML 4.0 because it's
> basic and all browers understand it. Some browers are old or just
> haven't caught up with the newer meathods.

Like M$IE you mean. I thought I was being clever learning XHTML, validated 
perfectly, looked peachy in firefox, IE barfed at it. So loose HTML4 it is.
> </OT>

cheers

tim hall