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| author | Rodrigo Arias Mallo <rodarima@gmail.com> | 2024-01-01 23:40:52 +0100 |
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| committer | Rodrigo Arias Mallo <rodarima@gmail.com> | 2024-01-01 23:40:52 +0100 |
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diff --git a/old/Gazette49.html b/old/Gazette49.html new file mode 100644 index 0000000..1521feb --- /dev/null +++ b/old/Gazette49.html @@ -0,0 +1,67 @@ +<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2 Final//EN"> +<HEAD> + <TITLE> Linux Gazette extract (Issue 49)</TITLE> +</HEAD> +<HR> +<H1> +<CENTER> + Linux Gazette extract +</CENTER> +</H1> +<HR> + +<BLOCKQUOTE><EM> + <P> A few criteria we're keeping in mind: + <UL> + <LI> The Gazette is unique because of its distributed nature: it has + to be readable on a wide variety of mirrors and CD-ROMs whose hardware + and OSes we do not control. + + <LI> Many of our readers pay by the minute for their online time, so + even adding a megabyte to the size of the Gazette (e.g., lots of + additional graphics) is a major expense for them. + + <LI> Readers use a wide variety of browsers, including older versions. + Browsers include Netscape, IE, Opera, lynx, emacs, kfm, Mozilla, all + the experimental free browsers, etc, etc. + + <LI> Thus, we want to stick really close to standard HTML as the + least common denominator. One day we will switch to style sheets, but + not in the near future, because we don't want to fight with the + browsers and how they mis-apply styles. (We have seen some spectacular + examples of unusable pages due to styles.) We are also resistant to + Javascript for the same reason. + + <LI> We also stay away from depending on CGI, because it would + require special setup on the mirrors' part, and couldn't run at all on + CD-ROMs. We have allowed a few CGI scripts to sneak in (the search + engine, the mirror mail-in form), but these work only on the main site, + and we want to keep CGI scripts to a minimum. We have considered going + to an all-dynamic site (e.g., Zope-powered), but again that does not + seem feasable at present without destroying the <I>Gazette</I>'s + distribution infrastructure, which is what makes the <I>Gazette</I> + unique as well as so widely read, and which allows the <I>Gazette</I> + to be included in the <I>Linux Documentation Project</I> mirrors. + + + <LI> The Gazette is quite popular as it is, and we don't want to lose + that readership by making changes they might not like. Thus, we prefer + to make changes incrementally rather than all at once. One recent + change I did was to put the navigation bar both at the top and bottom + of the article, rather than just at the bottom. Besides that, most of + my work recently has been behind the scenes, making the Gazette easier + to generate, using, e.g., configuration files and Python scripts to + generate the article headers and the table of contents rather than + doing it all by editing HTML. Which makes building the Gazette more + fun and also minimizes dead links when typos appear. + </UL> + + <P> Given this, if you have any particular suggestions, I'd be happy to + hear them. -Ed. +</EM></BLOCKQUOTE> + +<HR> +<h5> + Writen by <CITE>Linux Gazette's editor</CITE> on Issue 49, January 2000<BR> + <A HREF="http://www.linuxgazette.com/">http://www.linuxgazette.com</A> +</h5> |