Re: The new website.

On 01/25/2014 10:39 PM, Nicos Angelopoulos wrote:
> 
> Dear all,
> 
> Congratulations to the people responsible for the new website.
> It is handsome and appears thoroughly integrated.
> 
> A few side-comments.
> 
> 1. searching for 'static' returns some errors among the reply:
> 
>  Wiki pages from the website
> [wiki] ERROR: No permission to modify static_procedure Name/Arity
> [wiki] Warning: (file:line) Redefined static procedure: name/arity
> [wiki] How to serve static files?
> System Libraries

These are hits from the FAQ explaining these errors :-).  So, they are
correct results.  Possibly the title of the FAQ should change to explain
that better.

> 2. .txt files in packs are not displayed: 
> 
>  http://www.swi-prolog.org/pack/file_details/real/README.txt
>   > Unknown page style wiki

Thanks.  Fixed.

> 3. would it make sense to hot-wire the owl to point to swi-prolog.org ?

Was raised a few times more.  Done.

> 4. would placing the orange banner next to the owl (higher up than it 
>    is now) look better ?
>
> 5.  "home" looks atrophic next to the other options, 
> 	could there be more options like developer, philosophy, direction

Dunno.  Leave these to the experts.  Of course, the owl is now a home button
and it is a pity to spend a menu entry on a home button.

> 6. [not about the web-site, but will save you from reading another email from me]
> 
> 	have you ever tried 
> 
> 	?- pack_info( Pack ). 
> 
> 	[ie with a free varible]. Very interesting output, but not too readable.
> 
> 	would it make sense to make this succeed per pack instantiating 
> 	to the pack while printing the relevant info ?

Turned it into an error.  If you want, you can list all info using the
command
below.  I don't appreciate the output that much that I consider it a useful
feature.

?- forall(pack_property(Pack, version(_)), pack_info(Pack)).

> Many thanks to the people that made the website and documentation server
> such an eye pleaser.

A few designers make a big difference :-)

	Cheers --- Jan