On 04/01/06, Ross Gardler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Paul Bolger wrote: > > Having had a chance to experiment a bit with the dispatcher I keep > > finding that the existing contracts are too Forrest, or Apache, > > specific - it's no coincidence that most 'Forrest Powered' sites look > > a little bit like the Forrest site. > > Very true. > > > I'd like to propose (and in plain > > English this means I'd like to do it, but don't have the technical > > ability to pull it off on my own...) a set of contracts to overcome > > this. > > It's easy to do, we'll help if you ask direct questions. FOr more > general stuff the archives and docs are your friends.
> > > New navigation contracts would be a good start: nav-main and > > nav-section are very much based on the original Forrest site (and > > nav-section relies on Javascript, a big problem for me) - a set of > > contracts to produce very plain lists of links according to various > > criteria would be very useful. > > [OT} the nav-section contract no longer depends on javascript. You can > turn off the javascript stuff with a property, see the usage example in > the contract. > > > I think the appropriate time to do this would be immediately after the > > official dispatcher release. Anyone interested in collaborating? > > Timing - no time like the present. > I'm interesting in collaborating by advising. I don't need any new > contracts right now, but if you define what you want to do and ask a > direct question about how to do it then I will do my best to answer. As > will others. That sounds good. Thanks Ross, I'm about to set off on a four-day trip (away from computers) so will pick this up when I return. paul
