old way? (was Re: gnome-db2html2 and i18n)

[John Fleck <jfleck inkstain net>]

On Fri, Aug 25, 2000 at 10:55:50AM -0400, David C. Mason wrote:

> 
> It is unfortunate that the XSL engine in Mozilla will not make it into
> the first build but that is just how things go. This is why, whenever
> asked, I continually tell people it is better to wait on jumping into
> XML & new tools at this time. Does that mean we do it the 'old
> fashioned' way? Yes it does, with a better display engine. Does it
> suck... well if you are part of the 'freshmeat' generation, yes... if
> you are old and in the way, no.
> 
> Just my opinion.
> 

Dave - When you say 'new tools' that we should not be jumping into, are you
including gnome-db2html2? By 'old fashioned way' are you suggesting 
we ship html, and simply render it with the newly available display 
engine(s)?

Advantages:
We can stick with the mature, if clunky, tools we now use to render
html, allowing us to focus our energy on some of the other advanced
features we'd like the Nautilus help system to have: quality indexing,
an omf-based organizational scheme.

Disadvantages:
We're stuck with the mature, if clunky, tools we now use to render
html, leaving us with all the problems gnome-db2html was meant to
avoid.

Is this the core of the argument?

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