[Gimp-web] Status of the new web site

[Branko Collin]

On 23 Sep 2003, at 12:55, Raphaël Quinet wrote:

> Added some links suggested by Mat Caughron.

I don't feel comfortable linking to the commercial sites of Mat 
Caughron and Cameron Gregory without any further qualifications, 
because both seem to pretend that their share in the GIMP is more 
important than it really is. Cameron claims copyright on all of 
FTGIMP without even mentioning that most of the program is someone 
else's work (and thus someone else's copyright); Mat suggests that 
his site is the official site for all things GIMP for Windows. 

Notice how I say 'seem', 'suggest' et cetera: nowhere do they 
actually claim that all or most of the GIMPs they sell is their 
creation. However, by linking to them in a prominent matter from wgo, 
I feel we are validating their suggestions, and I don't think we 
should do that. If we do link to them, we should make clear what the 
deal is and also (if possible) mention what the added value of the 
commercial products is, so that it is clear that most of the products 
they're selling is not owned, controlled or made by them, but by the 
GIMP community at large.

> - Fixed several XHTML errors in a large number of files.  All files
>   should now validate. [Branko]

This is too much credit: I still left some pages untouched, because 
they had a lay-out that made it hard to look for the problems:

><DIV
CLASS="SECT1"
><H1
CLASS="SECT1"
><A
NAME="SUPPORT-MODULES"
>Support Modules</A
></H1
><P
>This section describes the modules that help make using the
    <TT
CLASS="FILENAME"
>gimp</TT
> module easier.  These range from a set
    of constants to storing persistent data.</P
><DIV
et cetera.

It's (some of?) the HTML files in the docs directory.

Can anybody tell me if there's a good reason why they're formatted 
like this?

-- 
branko collin
collin@xs4all.nl