Re: New KDE web site.

[Elliot Lee <sopwith redhat com>]

On 4 Nov 2000, Owen Taylor wrote:

> I tend to agree with Joakim here that ditching WML would be a good
> idea - WML is a pretty amazingly cludgy tower of M4, Perl, its own
> variable substitution and 2 or 3 other things (!).

It does the job nicely from the perspective of the web developer, and
happens to be implemented using a cludgy tower. The latter is less
relevant than the former for the purposes of this discussion, since the
cludgy tower just happens to work.

> And since we're using a mix of WML and PHP, we'eve lost the main
> advantages of WML - static content and the ability to test without a
> web server.

This is because Joakim decided that he wanted to use PHP as much as
possible, not because things are not reasonably implementable in WML.

-- Elliot
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