Subject: bug#69815: [PATCH] Fix some CSS issues on elpa.gnu.org

From: john muhl <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2024 07:55:08 -0500

I looked into it some more and at least some of the invalid HTML
is generated by Org’s HTML export but they don’t consider that a
bug so I guess quirks mode is here to stay and the DOCTYPE patch
can be discarded.

john muhl <[email-masked]> writes:

> Philip Kaludercic <[email-masked]> writes:
>
>> john muhl <[email-masked]> writes:
>>
>>> Here are a few patches fixing some minor issues. The first one
>>> makes the packages table always full-width and expands the footer
>>> background so it contains all the footer text (see before.png).
>>>
>>> I noticed that with a very narrow view the CSS drops the rank
>>> column to help fit but it doesn’t help quite enough to prevent
>>> horizontal overflow (narrow.png). It seems to me that the version
>>> column is the least important so the second patch changes the
>>> narrow view to drop it instead of the rank (after.png).
>>>
>>> The last patch fixes the doctype for sub-pages. <!DOCTYPE HTML
>>> PUBLIC> is not a valid doctype and so triggers quirks mode. Not a
>>> big deal but probably better avoided.
>>>
>>>>>From f13cc711f0bf368f9acb1ae579ab9e078aefce1e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
>>> From: john muhl <[email-masked]>
>>> Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2024 13:22:52 -0500
>>> Subject: [PATCH] Fix some CSS issues
>>>
>>> * html/layout.css (footer): Remove fixed height so the background
>>> expands to encompass all footer content.
>>> (table): Make packages table always use full page width.
>>> ---
>>>  html/layout.css | 12 ++++++------
>>>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/html/layout.css b/html/layout.css
>>> index 7d3be41..9d04958 100644
>>> --- a/html/layout.css
>>> +++ b/html/layout.css
>>> @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
>>> -l/* Copyright (C) 2010-2022, 2024 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
>>> +/* Copyright (C) 2010-2022, 2024 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
>>>  
>>>  This file is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
>>>  it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
>>> @@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ html, body {
>>>    height: 100%;
>>>    margin: 0 auto -50px; /* the bottom margin is the negative value of the footer's height */
>>>  }
>>> -footer, .push, .footer {
>>> +.push {
>>>    height: 90px; /* .push must be the same height as .footer */
>>>  }
>>>  
>>> @@ -302,6 +302,10 @@ footer p, .footer p {
>>>    line-height: 1.4em;
>>>  }
>>>  
>>> +table {
>>> +  width: 100%;
>>> +}
>>> +
>>>  @media screen and (max-width: 999px) {
>>>    .container {
>>>      width: 600px;
>>> @@ -313,10 +317,6 @@ footer p, .footer p {
>>>      font-size: 1em;
>>>    }
>>>  
>>> -  table {
>>> -    width: 100%;
>>> -  }
>>> -  
>>>    .container {
>>>      width: 90%;
>>>      padding: 40px 5%;
>>> -- 
>>> 2.41.0
>>
>> Looks good.
>>
>>>
>>>>>From 5dafd0d3483336ff50b5039942bc35c41d30644f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
>>> From: john muhl <[email-masked]>
>>> Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2024 13:46:54 -0500
>>> Subject: [PATCH] Show rank instead of version on narrow displays
>>>
>>> * html/layout.css (td):
>>> (th): Hide version and right align rank column.
>>> ---
>>>  html/layout.css | 7 ++++++-
>>>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/html/layout.css b/html/layout.css
>>> index 9d04958..02dfb87 100644
>>> --- a/html/layout.css
>>> +++ b/html/layout.css
>>> @@ -283,6 +283,11 @@ td {
>>>    border-bottom: 1px solid #ddd;
>>>  }
>>>  
>>> +td:last-child,
>>> +th:last-child {
>>> +  text-align: right;
>>> +}
>>> +
>>>  footer, .footer {
>>>    border-top: 1px solid #999;
>>>    text-align:center;
>>> @@ -330,7 +335,7 @@ table {
>>>      width: 300px;
>>>    }
>>>  
>>> -  td:last-child, th:last-child {
>>> +  td:nth-child(2), th:nth-child(2) {
>>>      display: none;
>>>    }
>>>  
>>> -- 
>>> 2.41.0
>>
>>
>> Why not show both, and allow scrolling horizontally (x-overflow: auto)
>> if there is not enough space?
>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>>From 16547922cc9339e4f920ae62a1bee09c38625cbf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
>>> From: john muhl <[email-masked]>
>>> Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2024 16:54:45 -0500
>>> Subject: [PATCH] * elpa-admin.el (elpaa--html-header): Fix DOCTYPE.
>>>
>>> ---
>>>  elpa-admin.el | 2 +-
>>>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/elpa-admin.el b/elpa-admin.el
>>> index d4a9dcf..9475336 100644
>>> --- a/elpa-admin.el
>>> +++ b/elpa-admin.el
>>> @@ -1544,7 +1544,7 @@ readme file has an unconventional name"
>>>  ;;; Make the HTML pages for online browsing.
>>>  
>>>  (defun elpaa--html-header (title &optional header head-extra)
>>> -  (format "<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC>
>>> +  (format "<!DOCTYPE HTML>
>>
>> What difference does this make?  Or rather how is this related to the
>> other patches?  That should be explained in the commit message.
>
> It’s unrelated. I just included it since it looked like a mistake.
> If those pages require quirks mode then a better fix would be get
> rid of that requirement. Checking now I see that they serve
> non-conforming HTML so perhaps we should fix that first.