Re: [mlview-list] project update

[Scott White <wwsw3 earthlink net>]

Dodji Seketeli wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I have merged Scott's website patches into xml-style-web--mainline--0.1 .
> I have also started to move my arse to add some content in there too.
>  
Nice! Now we have ARCH instructions.

Dodji, I noticed you started changing "MLView" to "MlView". Be careful 
when doing this, the <MLView> text in the right portion of the header 
section is not text, it's actually an image (one of the few images). The 
reason for this is so that particular text stays in the header through 
absolute positioning. Having it as text could mean someone's browser 
text settings could make it display outside the header boundary. also, 
the site is not dynamic (however, php would be nice. does the server 
have php? if so, i could make the design much simpler). As a static site 
that tries to maintain navigational coherence across all the pages, the 
changes like MLView -> MlView on index.html do not affect the other 
pages. I do global replacements across all the pages for these types of 
changes. It may be easier for me to do this, and I would be happy to do 
so. Maybe just email me a heads up saying "could we change instances of 
MLView to MlView". I have also changed the < MLView > graphic to reveal 
the correct spelling. I will make all these changes tonight.

> Maybe we should also add some content about the rationale of having our source code
> in ARCH and keeping it in sync with the CVS.
>  
Yes, I thought about this. In addition, we should probably indicate when 
CVS is updated vs ARCH

> Scott, I think that the proposed date for the 0.8.0 release (October, 23 2004) is not realistic.
>  
Yes, I had just put something there to show our idea of having a date 
for the next release. Since the new design release is planned to 
coincide with 0.7.0 it did not make sense to have that in the road map. 
see what i mean? that date was arbitrary on my part, it might well have 
been Jan. 1, 1999.

> ps: what are you slackers waiting for to send out MlView 0.7.0 screeshots ugh ? :-). Now that you know how to
> grab the sources from the GNU ARCH repository, compile it and seend out shots !
>
> pps: how do I do to make screenshots thumbnails ? (I am a total gimp/art iliterate)
>  
If anyone wants to send the screens to me, that is fine as well. It may 
be easier for me to make the thumbs and to maintain a consistent look to 
them. However, if you want to learn how to make them (and i can assure 
you it is easier than GNU ARCH :) I can put some instructions together 
when I get home.