RE: [Rhythmbox-devel] State Of The Rhythmbox

[Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>]

On Wed, 2003-07-30 at 17:54, Douglas McMorris wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-07-30 at 11:38, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> > On Wed, 2003-07-30 at 17:26, Colin Walters wrote:
> > > On Wed, 2003-07-30 at 07:19, sisob@eircom.net wrote:
> > > > > First, I'd like to announce that we have a new website:
> > > > > http://www.rhythmbox.org/
> > > > 
> > > > Hmm, I prefered the old one, but that is neither here nor there.
> > > > Tell me you didn't just nuke the old one. I was planning on updating
> > > > the install guide for the new release.
> > > 
> > > I did, sorry.  Well, it's still in the rb-site CVS history I guess if
> > > you want to use it for reference.
> > > 
> > > Anyways, if you are going to be working on the web site, let me know
> > > beforehand, because I still haven't decided on where to keep it in
> > > revision control, and we'll want to work that out.
> > > 
> > > > The old site just looked so much cooler...
> > > 
> > > It did look cooler, I agree.  But it had three major problems:
> > > 
> > > 1) PHP
> > > 2) Complete lack of standards compliance
> > > 3) Gross code (this tends to be tied directly to #1)
> > > 
> > > Anyways, I will eventually get around to improving the new website,
> > > probably by stealing more of Epiphany's layout.
> > 
> > I didn't do the design but I wrote the code. It's not worse than some
> > other code... I mean, what do you expect for a 5 pages website ;)
> Why not just do a stylesheet and use a perl script server side
> include... a simple perl script or two and a stylesheet and then you can
> change the whole site later on and not have to redo the content or even
> copy and paste... it would just work.  I'd be willing to do this... I've
> got a fair amount of experience with it.

The current code pretty much allows that already.
http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/rhythmbox/rb-site/

Oh, and I'd rather not see comments about the website unless the person
is ready to actually do the work on it :)

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Bastien Nocera <hadess@hadess.net>