Hi Al, Am 25.01.2012 um 20:35 schrieb Al Haines:
I should mention that one thing that does slow things down for the WWers are text/HTML files with CR-only line endings. CR/LF is far preferable, since all the WWers use Windows. (I'm aware that there are fix utilities, but CR/LF's make things easier to start with.) You can be serious! For over 10 years I have not needed to worry about the line endings inside of a file. Any decent editor worth its fiddles will identify the line the line endings and internally convert to the native format and should either save in the native format or convert back to the original before saving. Furthermore these files are processed ahead of time and could be automagically convert to CR/LF. If the tools at PG can not do this, it is about time they did.
To my knowledge HTML is supposed to be submitted as a zipped file. Are zippers expected to convert the line endings into the native format!
It's also helpful to the WWers that text files are identified as to their character set. UTF8 files should have "-utf8" embedded in their filename, e.g. "somefile-utf8.txt". Latin1 and ASCII files much the same: "-ltn1", "-lt1", "-latin1", "-iso" or similar for Latin1 files, and "-asc" or "-ascii" for ASCII text files.
Good idea. regards Keith.