Re: wml devellopment

On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 06:45:23PM +0300, Shlomi Fish wrote:
> On Tue, 30 Sep 2003, Fritz Zaucker wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 30 Sep 2003, Denis Barbier wrote:
> >
> > > On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 02:45:54AM +0200, J. Stein wrote:
> > > > is the devellopment of wml frozen, or are there still any volunters?
> > >
> > > To be honest, it is currently frozen, but I am willing to work on it
> > > soon.  Hmmm, for how long am I telling this?
> >
> > The question is, what is currently missing?
> >
> 
> I personally think the navbar is a big ugly heap of ****. I usually ended
> up coding my own ad-hoc navbar code, because I did not like the code
> generated by the navbar. I have a patch for the navbar to make it behave
> more like I want it to. However, a good revamp will probably be in order.

I won't drop the current navbar implementation for compatibility reasons,
but may ship a better alternative, just send me one ;)

Another point is about UTF-8.  Perl 5.8.0 introduced drastic changes wrt
I/O and I do not see how to write source code which still works with
Perl < 5.8 and does the right thing with Perl >= 5.8.  In the latter
case, included files should tell their encoding and be converted into
UTF-8 when read, passes 2-9 would then deal with UTF-8 code only
and output files may be recoded when written onto disk.  I did not
find a solution, but UTF-8 zealots could tell that there is a simple
solution, convert all your files to UTF-8 and do not care about
other encodings.  Hmmm, not sure I'll do that ;)

About multilingual sites, I would also like to document and incorporate
into WML an improvement I made to the Debian web site.  Some portions of
text which are part of templates (i.e. included in many pages) are
now translated via gettext (see intl:gettext(3), shipped by mp4h).
But WML does not build mp4h with loadable modules support because it
has only be tested under Linux, you will have to compile and install
mp4h if you want this feature enabled.

-- 
Denis Barbier
WML Maintainer
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