www style

"J.C. Roberts" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.openbsd.www
Organization DesignTools
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Thursday 29 March 2007 15:34, Nick Holland wrote:
> Good addition (looks like developers forgot about this page), but
> a few comments on style:
>   wrap at around 72 chars where at all possible.
>     (stuff in <pre> tags should be wrapped at 80 chars, to match what
>      would be on the screen, it's actually pretty important, as the
>      <pre> tags with long lines do funny things in rendering.  I
>      fudged a bit here, by wrapping at a word boundary, as I figure
>      people should be reading the words...)
>   New sentence, new line.
>   blank line before <p> tags
>   no </p> tags
>   Put the <pre> tags inside <blockquote> tags
>
> (yeah, I see some of the other additions to this page don't quite
> follow those guidelines, either...)

Nick,

Do we have anything like style(9) for www branch submissions/patches?

I know there's good reason behind the formatting used, and I've
always taken the "When-In-Rome" approach to patches, but I can't
recall ever seeing anything official.

Is it something worth documenting?

-jcr
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