Ulrich Hobelmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > John Bokma wrote: >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >>> In comp.lang.perl.misc John Bokma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> [ web based boards ] >> >>>> And which useful tools do you require? >>>> >>> A choice of news readers to suit different people with different >>> interfaces, >> >> - different browsers, different stylesheets, different board styles >> (themes). > > But the UI is still *forced* on you by the website; no choice. > There's only a very limited choice, and it invariably *includes* the > UI. With NNTP *you* choose how to interpret and display the data you > get.
With a web based forum too. Example: http://johnbokma.com/perl/phpbb-remote-backup.html >> http://www.phpbb.com/mods/ > > Great. How can I, the user, choose, how to use a mod on a given web > server? Ask the admin? > What if the web server runs another board than PHPBB? Check if there is a mod, and ask the admin. >> Does the user want this? And with a user stylesheet you can change it >> quite radically :-) > > The look, not the feel. Wild guess: (signed) javascript and iframes? on your local computer? Otherwise: fetch HTML, parse it, restructure it, and have the application run a local webserver. Python, Perl, piece of cake. >> And in return the user gets: colors, fonts, font sizes, embedding of >> images, flash, you name it. Moving avatars, even sounds. > > As I wrote earlier, you *could* run a web forum over NNTP, and use > HTML posts instead of plain text. It would have the advantages of > NNTP. > >> Oh, yes, I would love to see an XML interface on the board I use. >> Maybe I can just install a mod, or write one myself. > > What would that XML be for? Any particular *use*? RSS feeds? XML-RPC? Access to the board with a better mark up then HTML supports? -- John Small Perl scripts: http://johnbokma.com/perl/ Perl programmer available: http://castleamber.com/ Happy Customers: http://castleamber.com/testimonials.html -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
