comment about indexes

From: Craig A Summerhill <craig_at_cni.org_at_hypermail-project.org>
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1999 07:11:52 -0500 (EST)
Message-Id: <9903181211.AA06232_at_a.cni.org>

I have a comment about the formatting on the index pages. I noticed this last week when I started working with the 2a code, but didn't say anything.

Environment:
Alpha w/Digital Unix 4.0a
hypermail2a16-pl0
apache 1.3.4
Netscape Communicator 4.51

On this system, the key at the top and bottom of the all the index pages are all getting collapsed into a single line, which makes it kind hard to read, IMHO.

To see what I mean, take a look at:

http://www.cni.org/Hforums/cni-copyright/1999-01/

=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=

I think the reason has to do with the fact that Daniel reformatted the index output to remove the bullet points <LI>. In past versions (2.0b2 and prior), the HTML for this stuff was displayed with line breaks because it was wrapped as an unordinated list.

e.g.

<UL>
<LI><STRONG><A HREF="http://alinkhere/">About this archive</A></STRONG>
<LI><STRONG>Messages sorted by:</STRONG>
<A HREF="author.html">[ author ]</A>
<A HREF="date.html">[ date ]</A>
<A HREF="thread.html">[ thread ]</A>
<LI><STRONG><A HREF="http://alinkhere/">Other mail archives</A></STRONG>
</UL>

However, the new version removes the <LI> and <UL> tags, and this causes the information to be collapsed. I think this makes it a little hard to read/comprehend...

e.g.

<STRONG><A HREF="http://alinkhere/">About this archive</A></STRONG>
<STRONG>707 Messages sorted by:</STRONG>
<A HREF="author.html">[ author ]</A>
<A HREF="date.html">[ date ]</A>
<A HREF="thread.html">[ thread ]</A>
<STRONG><A HREF="http://alinkhere/">Other mail archives</A></STRONG>

I'd like to suggest that a <BR> be inserted at the end of each of these lines. I think it will make the index key more readable...

Is there any objection to this?

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