Bug 42230

Summary:	define contract for images and assets in backend store, move to XHTML2 strict.
Product:	Lenya	Reporter:	J <nettings>
Component:	Miscellaneous	Assignee:	Lenya Developers <dev>
Status:	NEW ---
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	P5
Version:	Trunk
Target Milestone:	2.0.1
Hardware:	Other
OS:	other

Description J 2007-04-25 01:48:26 UTC

we need a clearly defined contract as to what is stored in the repository and how.
for instance, what is the generic format of images? do we store dimensions (yes
we do, but how exactly?) do we store alignment information?
currently, it is not easily possible to generate XHTML1.0 strict *and* use image
resizing, because height/width/align attributes are not allowed... with a
clearly defined backend format, we can easily prepare the data for each editor
so that those features work, convert them back to clean XHTML and produce
correct XHTML strict output.

in addition, we really should move to XHTML2 for storage. it greatly simplifies
re-using content snippets out of context, because the stupid <hN/> tags are now
embedded in  <section/>s which can be arbitrarily nested. plus i think that a
really picky backend format is a good exercise :)
XHTML2 can be trivially transformed into XHTML1.0, or, if you must, into HTML 3.0 :)

Comment 1 J 2007-11-01 13:54:49 UTC

with the introduction of uuid-based links, we're already in quite good shape.
the svn image resizing could use some normative documentation, but other than
that we're fine, so i'm downgrading this one...