Re: developer.mozilla.org Homepage Design: suggestions wanted

fantasai wrote:

> Ferrie J Bank wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Have you by any chance been following the recent demise
> > of Netscape's DevEdge site? see http://www.mozillazine.org/
>
> Yes, I heard about that idea months ago, by chance. I was hoping
> we'd get rights to the content before it went down.
>
> > Maybe you could host the Javascript References and Manuals,
> > and the DevEdge sidebar on your developer.mozilla.org site?
> >
> > It would be a nice way of continuing the great documentation
> > source that DevEdge used to be.
>
> As Mitchell writes, MF is still negotiating for rights to the content.
>
> http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/mitchell/archives/2004/10/netscape_devedg.html
>
> Given legal clearance, we should first mirror the entire site
> as-is. That will get the content back up much faster than taking
> the time to incorporate it into devmo. Once it's up, we can leave
> that copy static and move articles over bit by bit as we update
> them.
>
> I just hope that AOL still has the source files for the website
> on backup tapes somewhere. I'd rather not have to restore it from
> the processed HTML.
>
> ~fantasai
>
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There have been no new updates to that blog for some time. Is the Mozilla
foundation still talking with AOL? Or have you guys given up? How can the Web
Archive mirror the content without permission but you guys can't?