On 16 December 2011 11:27, E. Liddell ejlddll@googlemail.com wrote:
On Thu, 15 Dec 2011 20:20:11 -0500 Calvin Morrison mutantturkey@gmail.com wrote:
On 15 December 2011 19:45, L0ner sh4dou sh4dou@gmail.com wrote:
2011/12/16 Calvin Morrison mutantturkey@gmail.com:
Indeed it looks great and works well, though I think it is very
complicated
(it is hosted in their git repository so you can see)
I'd like to see some things.
A "planet" - basically it's a feed for all of our different blogs
into
one
page.
A "apps" section, I think Darrell spoke about this before.
In fact, Darrell had a lot of good stuff and ideas for simplifying
the
navigation of the website, they're somewhere in the mail logs
recently.
I think we are avoiding using any sort of databsases however and we
want
to
make sure tihs all will render well on any web browser.
Calvin Morrison
Well I can do some css magic. It will look good and render on modern browsers (forget about konqueror tho).
We cannot have our homepage incorrectly load on our own web browser.
There is really no reason we should "forget about Konqueror"--it's sufficiently modern that it should support CSS1 and at least most of CSS2, and a fair selection of Javascript constructs. It's possible to create a decent site within those constraints, keeping in mind that it doesn't have to look *identical* on both Konqueror and more recent browsers, just "good". Graceful degredation in webpages is not rocket science.
However, one thing that we do need to keep in mind is that people who haven't yet installed any other graphical environment may wish to download Trinity packages--in other words, it would be wise to create something that is usable in text-based browsers like Lynx (it doesn't have to be elegant, but it should be possible to get from the root page to the package downloads that way).
Not using databases is a big problem, since it practically constrains you to use static pages.
Basically - why is is this so bad?
Depends on what we're trying to achieve. Dynamic pages ease certain types of collaboration and user-added content, but static pages are not intrinsically evil and put less of a load on the server.
Both can be good, If anything I'd do a bit of both.
Simple php/html + a commenting system.
here is a good example of very basic and yet has dynamic elements: http://incise.org/htpicker.html