Re: New MCF pages

"mf" <[email protected]> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:[email protected]...
> Hi.
> Sorry that this mail might come over a bit unfriendly, but I've put some
>   good effort in this page and this criticism is beginning to annoy me
> quite a bit.

mf, there was no need at all to become unfriendly. Steve's comments were
surely not ment to disrespect your work, but he simply has another point of
view. It maybe would have been better to write an explanatory email to this
list before we started the work on it, but Steve was on vacation at this
time and we maybe didnt feel anybody would be interested to read and comment
in any case. We made our thing and its Steve's right to give comments on the
way we did it.

> Steve Lhomme wrote:
> > For the next reason I give ;)
> > you that putting an alt information on every image is mandatory. (at
least for
> > strict (X)HTML). And the title one help to display a text information
(Mozilla
> > handle the Title one, not Alt) when you pass over an image. This is also
VERY
> > important for text based browsers (no pictures, so each picture has to
be
> > described) or blind people.
>
> Read the code before you moan. All images have alt texts. ALL. And I'm
> not even THINKING about using HTML 4.0-strict.

Peace guys, peace !!

Steve, mf did include the requested info with the pictures, are you ok with
that ?

> >>>- test the pages in lynx (or links) to make sure all valuable
> >>>informations are available.
>
> I have tried it with lynx, it looks neat, readable and all information
> comes through clearly.

Issue resolved also

> >>We had a few people browsing the pages with Mozilla and all were happy,
> >
> > Mozilla, as MSIE, is error compliant. If there are some mistakes in the
code,
> > the page will still render normally.
>
> As far as I know there are no HTML errors anywhere. The only "error" I
> found was something that looks more like a bug in Lynx than anything
> else, and that is that it doesn't handle the spaces in the project page
> url. I have planned talking to hikke about this, to replace the space
> with %20.

Another point resolved ... what can you ask more :-) !


> >>>- I see that all the pages have URLs like
> >>>http://mcf.sourceforge.net/newpage/?content=Project Page
> > Well, I assume that the site update will be done from a Web Form... That
makes
> > working offline on the site a hell. Especially when you work without the
> > original design locally. If you can explain me how it can make things
easier...
> >>After all the work that has been invested from mf and hikke to get it
> >>up, this way i dont recomment to change it now.
> >
> > I think it's time NOW that is not launched. After it will be a bigger
work.
> >
> Content pages are now simply HTML pages stripped from their header and
> footer (head tags, body tag and document closing tags).
> This is easy to edit, also in dreamweaver, I've done it, and content
> creation is easy too. A quick ssh login to mcf.sourceforge.net and you
> can write pages on the fly. This is how I'm doing it now, except for
> some more complex pages that I can't write by hand.
> For CVS, hikke and I have planned to include an external content system,
> that will read the pages >DIRECTLY< from http://cvs.sourceforge.net,
> which makes it impossible for any desynchronisations with CVS pages to
> occur.

Steve, please accept that its simply to late to change it now. Everybody in
the team was informed that we are planning to make a new site, and nobody
showed big interest to help us or to give comments, which is ok. But its not
correct to drop in now, after all the work was invested from mf and hikke,
and to say its all wrong and should be made different.

I am asking every team member now to respect that the people caring about
the webpage decided about its implementation differently than they would
like to have it done, same as we would appreciate if you would apply specs
changes to MCF main specs, without questioning any of them !

Christian






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