[Fwd: Re: [Lcd4linux-devel] manpage for lcd4linux]

[Xavier V. <xav...@fr...>]

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From: Jerry Seutter <ye...@th...>
To: Xavier VELLO <xav...@fr...>
Subject: Re: [Lcd4linux-devel] manpage for lcd4linux
Date: 02 Mar 2004 13:29:15 -0700

On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 04:57:12PM +0100, Xavier VELLO wrote:
> Hi Jerry, hi list !

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> > 3. Integration with autogenerated HTML, such as DocBook files that 
> > are rendered in HTML.  Can we still throw the DocBook output up on
> > the website?
> Yes ! It's the main reason ! In fact, we'll have to write a modified dtd
> stylesheet to call engine functions instead of using html tags. This may
> be done with a script too without modifying the stylesheet, but a new
> sheet would be proper.
> /me has to learn more about docbook to know how to write customized
> stylesheets.

Cool, I like the sound of that.

> > How is writing the webpages in PHP different from writing lcd4linux
> > in Java?  PHP has a lot of really cool features that I don't see a 
> > need for here.
> You're rude here. 

My apologies, Xavier.  It was not my intent to be rude, and reading my
email now, it is too harsh.

> In fact, I see a bunch of advantages to write the site
> in PHP:
> - keep documentations clean (without frames, fixed styles, ...)
> - help the maintainers (new versions, new docs)
> - be more attractive (in fact it'll be the role of CSS)
> - add interactivity ?
> - ...
> Once more, I think I should write a test engine before continuing this
> thread.

I worked through some PHP tutorials last week and was pleasantly surprised
at how well it fits in with HTML code.  I'm used to writing web pages in
Python and it isn't as nice as working with PHP.

It sounds like you have thought this through pretty well.  You do have a
good point that PHP has more headroom to grow.  I look forward to seeing
the test engine.

Thanks again for your input, Xavier!

Jerry
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Xavier VELLO <xav...@fr...>