From: Edgar Toernig <froese@gmx.de>
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2006 22:30:17 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC (take 2)] gitweb: New improved patchset view
Message-ID: <20061030233017.19f25117.froese@gmx.de>
In-Reply-To: <200610302250.06733.jnareb@gmail.com>

Jakub Narebski wrote:
>
> I'm just saying that with HTML diffs, presented via gitweb in graphical
> web browser, you have more possibilities, more formatting to use.

It would be nice though, when the gitweb output would be readable
on non css-capable browsers (i.e. w3m) too.  At the moment, gitweb
is mostly usable - the only problematic case is code and diffs.
These are presented via div-tags so in a non-css browser, all spaces
are collapsed thereby removing all indentation.  Couldn't code
fragments be presented via (styled) pre-tags for backward compatibility?
Pretty please :)

Btw, while the css version looks nice, Opera seems to have extreme
performance problems with gitweb's project page when there are a lot
of repositories.  I.e. trying to view http://gitweb.freedesktop.org/
brings my system to its knees.  Turning off style sheets cures it
but then diffs are unusable ...