Re: WML is not dead, is it? - A motivation email

I'm also very happy that something like WML exists. I'm using it in 
everydeay work yearly for different webs. So please do not drop this 
good project just like that.

What I miss is working compatibility with cygwin, so one could use 
WML also under Windows. I do not have Linux/Unix in hand every place 
where I'd like to use WML.

Regards,
Märt.

On 15 Mar 2005 at 14:39, Martin Feuersänger wrote:

> Hi List,
> 
> I use WML since some time now to twiddle on my private site from time
> to time and I really like it, especially it's flexibility.
> 
> However, since I use WML it's representation to the (internet) world
> is very very poor.
> 
> I don't complain about this mailinglist. Even though traffic is very
> low, the quality of the occasional messages is good, you can see that
> there are people who are really using WML, even at work. Denis Barbier
> seems to be still working on the code base, even though there hasn't
> been a release for a long time. Also responses are quick.
> 
> But when you are on the mailing list you are allready "into it". But
> what do people do who hear the first time about WML?
> 
> 1) They google.
>  - Asking google about WML doesn't help very much. There is the
> unfortunate collision with Wireless Markup Language. But otherwise you
> shouldn't expect much from a three letter word search.
>  - Asking google about "Website Meta Language" is good. You get 12.800
> references and on top is thewml.org
> 
> 2) They go to the top site.
>  - And this is where trouble starts. Sometimes (like right now) the
>  site
> is unreachable. And if you can reach it, a lot of important features
> are broken. A couple of months ago Shlomi Fish announced a brushup of
> the site but except for a 'Against epatents' button there is  not a
> lot of new stuff.
> 
> Don't get me wrong here. I'm not blaming anybody. I just want to state
> that for what WML can do, it is totaly 'underadvertised'.
> 
> Here is a list of my  top three whishes for the website:
> 
> - a searchable archive of the mailinglist
> - online documentation. wmd is fine for me, but if you are just a
> potential user, you want to have a look at the documentation before
> installing the software - examples, examples, examples. One thing is a
> good documentation, but it's nothing without examples. Code for whole
> sites is fine but what I would like most is a collection of code
> snippets that solve specific problems. What I'm thinking about is a
> kind of 'plugin collection'. I'd really like to share some of my
> stuff, maybe it's helpfull for others and I'd really like to dig thru
> other solutions.
> 
> Ok, these are my thoughts, what do you think?
> 
>   Martin
> 
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