Re: The state of our web site and standards

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Thu, Apr 12, 2001 at 11:57:46AM +0100, Telsa Gwynne wrote:
> Anyway, I know there was a GUADEC BOF about the site. Perhaps someone 
> could summarise or point me at a url about it? (There's nothing in the
> gnome-web-list archives referring to what happened at the BOF yet.)

  I did annoy people for the first 15-20mn because i considered
that generating different set of pages based on the user-Agent
and using the following at the authoring level

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<?php create-header() ?>
<h1> my beautiful content</h1>
<p>bla bla bla
<?php create-footer() ?>
--------------

  were IMHO not good ideas (will put excessive burden on the server,
doesn't allow to validate easilly when authoring, etc ...). Point is
that Ximian site seems to be designed this way and it's tempting to reuse
the work they did.

I finally shut up after a while upon request to allow the presentation
to proceed, but I'm still convinced it's not the proper path to follow.
I would far prefer a simpler design of our web site, keeping valid
HTML in CVS so that anybody can fix/commit it without having to go
though special tricks. IMHO looking at the design of a few sites
known to have good markup (like W3C one) and reusing a similar construct
is probably the most efficient way to get something out with is workable
and standard in a decent amount of time.
  But it seems I represent a minority :-\

Daniel

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