bug#43000: [Web pages] Proposed changes to tour/index.html

[Stefan Kangas]

Hi Thérèse,

Thérèse Godefroy <godef.th@free.fr> writes:

> We are planning to migrate all templated pages on gnu.org to HTML5 in
> order to improve accessibility. But before doing this, deprecated tags
> such as <tt> and <acronym> need to be removed. Emacs has 2 templated
> pages that contain <tt>: manual/emacs.html (maybe not in  use anymore),
> and tour/index.html. I fixed the latter, but also had some fun restyling
> it.
>
> Summary of the changes:
>
> * Replace <tt> with <kbd> or <code>: <kbd> for keyboard entries, and
> <code> for the rest.
>
> * Replace tables that are only used for layout with floating divs or
> display:table + media queries.
>
> * Modernize the "real" tables.
>
> * Use the Emacs stylesheet, header and footer instead of the www.gnu.org
> boilerplace.
>
> The diff is rather big, but at least you can examine the page locally
> because it doesn't need anything outside the emacs directory.

Thanks for working on this.

I applied the patch and looked at the result in Firefox.  I couldn't
find anything that looked wrong during a cursory visual inspection.

(And the Guided Tour in particular looks much better.)

Best regards,
Stefan Kangas