on a quick look I don't see how to move a bunch of related files that forms a complex page to sites.google.com. e.g. the freemind-produced html has a single html page and a subdirectory that contains javascript, icons, a stylesheet, images, etc. Am I missing something on a 10 minute scan?
Thanks Erick On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 9:10 PM, Erick Erickson <[email protected]>wrote: > 1) yep > 2) yep > 3) something I had been deferring thinking about, mostly because I couldn't > think of an easy solution > 4) yep. > > little website: great suggestion. I'm finding freemind a > great tool for getting my head around new material, but > I also don't particularly want to hog all the glory (or do > all the work :) ). The problem as you point out is that > having multiple people editing a single source file doesn't > work very well. All that said, it's always worthwhile putting > something tentative in front of other eyes to see if it's > just me or if something would be generally useful, and > the "little website" idea sure fits the bill. > > Unfortunately, the next two weeks are booked pretty solid > so I probably won't be able to put much effort into it for the > near term. > > Thanks > Erick > > On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 7:53 PM, Chris Hostetter > <[email protected]>wrote: > >> >> : Hmmm, I think I need a goad as well as a goal here. One of the >> interesting >> : exports of Freemind is a clickable html "mini website". That is, there's >> a >> : single html file (currently 42K) and a stylesheet and some icons. In the >> end >> : it provides a pretty nifty representation. This solves the problem of >> people >> : having to download Freemind in order to get any value out of it. There's >> no >> : reason NOT to make the freemind file available too though. >> >> Having browsed arround the FreeMind website a bit, and looking at some of >> the "example" FreeMind Maps, i must admit that i don't really "get it" .. >> i don't even really get what "it" is. >> >> that said, the few things i do think i have a firm grasp on are: >> 1) the FreeMind XML files are intended to be edited/viewed in a GUI App >> 2) The HTML outputs are inteded as a secondary by product >> 3) this isn't the sort of thing intended for communcal editing >> 4) FreeMind is GPL. >> >> With that in mind, checking the XML in SVN, and having Hudson >> generate the HTML by "running FreeMind" doesn't really seem all the >> prudent/pactical. >> >> My suggestion: Setup a little sites.google.com (or even code.google.com) >> page where you host the latest XML file and the generate HTML. >> >> Worrry about the future if/when the future happens. >> >> >> >> -Hoss >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] >> For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] >> >> >
