Barracuda: RE: Barracuda: on another topic

Hi Jacob,

I am wondering, is there a book out on Barracuda?
I have read the one on XMLC, which is mainly about
the view generation stuff.  I mean a book about the
event and page flow FW.  

I have been evaluating Barracuda and Struts.  Struts
is the market share leader, but I find it to be full
of redundancies, poorly organized and structured,
unnecessarily difficult to understand, difficult to
accomplish simple things with, not as much supporting of 
componentized re-use as it should be, and harder than
it needs to be to do some simple things.  

OTOH I find Barracuda to be conceptually simple,
richer, and at at the same time much easier to understand
and to see how to get things done. 

I think that Barracuda needs a book in order to compete
with Struts.  There are about six Struts books out now.

Why I bring this up is that I would be interested in
writing a book on Barracuda, but I would need the
cooperation of the project team.

Robert Blumen


-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On
Behalf Of Jacob Kjome
Sent: Friday, December 13, 2002 9:55 AM
To: Robert Blumen
Subject: Re: Barracuda: your web site


Hello Robert,

All the docs for Barracuda are going to be modified for the move to the new
BarracudaMVC.org server (not up quite yet, but soon).  I think Christian is
driving the re-work, so if you have ideas for how to make sure that the
pages are printer-friendly, send them to the list.

One obvious way is to provide an stylesheet with a media type of "print".
That way, the page can be whatever you want it to look like on the web and
also look exactly how you want it for printing as well without either style
constraining the other.

To see this implemented, check out:
http://www.alistapart.com/

Try doing a print-preview of that page.  Notice how the right navigation
that was on the page isn't there in the print-preview? That is because they
have a printer-specific stylesheet defined: <link rel="stylesheet"
type="text/css" media="print" href="/print.css" />


Also, their lead story for this week is a nice guideline for what should
happen with the Barracuda docs rework:
http://www.alistapart.com/stories/flexiblelayouts/

I have plenty of resources on these ideas.  If questions come up about
styles, don't hesitate to query me.  I want to make sure the doc rework
doesn't become a hob-job of nested tables and spacer images like it is
currently.

Jake

Friday, December 13, 2002, 10:59:30 AM, you wrote:

RB> Web pages such as 
RB> http://barracuda.enhydra.org/cvs_source/Barracuda/docs/events/sample
RB> _present
RB> ation_flows.html don't print very well on my printer because they are
too
RB> wide.  The margin and the borders impose a fixed width.  Is there a way
that
RB> you could redo these so that they are variable width or provide a
RB> print-friendly view?
 
RB> Robert Blumen



-- 
Best regards,
 Jacob                            mailto:[email protected]

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