hi! On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 1:21 AM, Dirk Stöcker <openstreet...@dstoecker.de> wrote: > Hello, > > as I'm in the mood to destroy old behaviour (current JOSM anyway breaks > again due to some changes) I decided to fix the MOTD issue. > > We now no longer have a MessageOfTheDay but a StartupPage. This page is > automatically created based on "StartupPageSource" which contains ALL data > in the same page. This hopefully will reduce the problems of main page and > translation drifting away (but also the source page looks a little bit > more complex and you can't preview it really good). > > Nevertheless the MOTD loading in JOSM is now also much easier and we > again can use all wiki style stuff (as the page is completely rendered by > the wiki).
> > I copied all texts from EN, DE and FR to the new page (there is also an > VersionHistory and VersionHistorySource for old text BTW). > I will continue to copy old stuff next week when not done until then ;-) > > There is a description at the page start how the page layout works. Should > be pretty easy to understand with the existing examples. > > Old pages for DE,FR,EN have been set readonly (or deleted when no longer > accessable for JOSM). This stuff will be deleted in some weeks. > > A change resulting from that: The MOTD is no longer version depending. > This means older JOSM's will also see newer texts. I consider this a > feature instead of a bug! This is a good step indeed.However as compared previous MOTD some development news are welcomed in new startup page. > > Ciao > -- > http://www.dstoecker.eu/ (PGP key available) > > > _______________________________________________ > josm-dev mailing list > josm-dev@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/josm-dev > -- Regards Subhodip Biswas Fedora Ambassador West Bengal , India GPG key : FAEA34AB Server : pgp.mit.edu http://subhodipbiswas.wordpress.com http:/www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/SubhodipBiswas _______________________________________________ josm-dev mailing list josm-dev@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/josm-dev
