Re: Web site v1.3 (with questions for Asger)

1999-08-01 Thread Juergen Vigna
On 31-Jul-99 Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen wrote: > > Obviously, there is a purely theoretic, infinitely small probabilty > that there is a bug in the code, but this is highly unlikely, given > the principle first expressed by Juergen: There are never bugs > in my code! > How right you are !!! #:

Re: Web site v1.3 (with questions for Asger)

1999-08-01 Thread Amir Karger
On Sat, Jul 31, 1999 at 05:04:11PM +0200, Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen wrote: > > I want to take this opportunity to clear one thing up: > I don't know PHP. I just use it. I do know that PHP > is a mess. It reminds me of Perl somehow, but I take > comfort in that the Microsoft offering ASP is wors

Re: Web site v1.3 (with questions for Asger)

1999-07-31 Thread Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen
> I don't think so. I mean, how can you customize the page without cookies? > Maybe, though, we shouldn't print out the Customize menu if cookies aren't > being accepted. Someone who knows php3 could tell me if it's possible to > know if your cookies are being accepted. I want to take this opport

Re: Web site v1.3 (with questions for Asger)

1999-07-29 Thread Amir Karger
On Thu, Jul 29, 1999 at 11:47:58AM +1000, Allan Rae wrote: > On Wed, 28 Jul 1999, Amir Karger wrote: > > Ahhh... Okay, I was thinking php was smarter than it is. I thought it > might have been able to apply the "long=1" to a table of links and this > table of links would then be used for all th

Re: Web site v1.3 (with questions for Asger)

1999-07-28 Thread Allan Rae
On Wed, 28 Jul 1999, Amir Karger wrote: > The problem is that without cookies, if I set "long=1" when you're looking > at a certain page, then as soon as you go to a different page on the site, > then $long is no longer set. Unless every single intra-site link contains a > "long=1". Sure, I could

Re: Web site v1.3 (with questions for Asger)

1999-07-28 Thread Amir Karger
On Thu, Jul 29, 1999 at 01:06:22AM +1000, Allan Rae wrote: > On Wed, 28 Jul 1999, Amir Karger wrote: > > > On Thu, Jul 29, 1999 at 12:11:06AM +1000, Allan Rae wrote: > > > > > Yes you would. What happens when news.php3 links to download/index.php3? We > > would have to add the "?foo=bar" for eve

Re: Web site v1.3 (with questions for Asger)

1999-07-28 Thread Allan Rae
On Wed, 28 Jul 1999, Amir Karger wrote: > On Thu, Jul 29, 1999 at 12:11:06AM +1000, Allan Rae wrote: > > > > If I select "sidebar" the URL of the fetched page has "?id=1" or something > > like that at the end. So couldn't the navbar links automatically be set > > to have that also? That way yo

Re: Web site v1.3 (with questions for Asger)

1999-07-28 Thread Amir Karger
On Thu, Jul 29, 1999 at 12:11:06AM +1000, Allan Rae wrote: > > If I select "sidebar" the URL of the fetched page has "?id=1" or something > like that at the end. So couldn't the navbar links automatically be set > to have that also? That way you wouldn't need a cookie. Yes you would. What happ

Re: Web site v1.3

1999-07-28 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Amir" == Amir Karger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Amir> This had been my original idea. It's not quite as easy to do in Amir> PHP3, but it should be doable. But what do we do in the top Amir> navbar case? Fancy sites will sometimes use fancy graphics to Amir> show that the submenu is a "des

Re: Web site v1.3 (with questions for Asger)

1999-07-28 Thread Allan Rae
On Wed, 28 Jul 1999, Amir Karger wrote: > On Wed, Jul 28, 1999 at 02:11:01PM +1000, Allan Rae wrote: > > Aha! Now this is the kind of obsessive compulsive response I like to see. You're welcome. [...] > > This appears to be a cookie thing. Anyway of getting around that? apart > > from me acc

Re: Web site v1.3

1999-07-28 Thread Allan Rae
On Wed, 28 Jul 1999, Amir Karger wrote: > On Wed, Jul 28, 1999 at 10:33:24AM +0200, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > > > "Allan" == Allan Rae <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > Allan> Shouldn't the news items be in reverse chronological order > > Allan> instead? > > > > Yes, and having dates

Re: Web site v1.3

1999-07-28 Thread Amir Karger
On Wed, Jul 28, 1999 at 10:33:24AM +0200, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > > "Allan" == Allan Rae <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Allan> Shouldn't the news items be in reverse chronological order > Allan> instead? > > Yes, and having dates there would be nice too. We do have dates there, but i

Re: Web site v1.3 (with questions for Asger)

1999-07-28 Thread Amir Karger
On Wed, Jul 28, 1999 at 02:11:01PM +1000, Allan Rae wrote: Aha! Now this is the kind of obsessive compulsive response I like to see. > The home page has a lone ";" just under the title :P > > The second last paragraph should have a comma before the word "mirrors" > and then you could probabl

Re: Web site v1.3

1999-07-28 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Allan" == Allan Rae <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Allan> Shouldn't the news items be in reverse chronological order Allan> instead? Yes, and having dates there would be nice too. Allan> In an earlier email you asked about highlighting the navbars at Allan> each appropriate level (About and

Re: Web site v1.3

1999-07-27 Thread Allan Rae
The home page has a lone ";" just under the title :P The second last paragraph should have a comma before the word "mirrors" and then you could probably drop the comma after the word mirrors. (Come on everybody apply your -pedantic options ;-) On Tue, 27 Jul 1999, Amir Karger wrote: > Add

Web site v1.3

1999-07-27 Thread Amir Karger
- Fixed broken links, uploaded full lgt (was missing 40 gifs!), and other minor details - Updated news page Added the fact that the lyx home page has been overhauled :) Also tried to make it look a bit more organized, wrote the date for each news item, etc. - Fleshed out "LyX is what?!" on ho