Hi,
here a bit on the current working of the site:
The pages are fed to a perl script, wrapping the content with the
mozilla outer stuff.
It includes the navigation as well as the last modified stuff (with a
link to bonsai).
This staging script seems to be quite busy, updating content usually
takes about an hour.
As far as content management goes, CVS is the tool that all the existing
interfaces (content developers and bonsai) know, so we should stick to
that. IMHO.
Fancy drop downs or other gimmicks for the navigation are not a very
good idea, as we shouldn't request too much standards conformance from
the browsers. And in the end, the site should still be viewable by lynx
et al.
I don't know if the site should be standards compliant, as the different
browsers around react quite differently on that, eg. NS4.x is a
nightmare when it comes down to styling (esp. if people don't trust
javascript). I would consider WORKSFORMOST to be more important than
STANDARDSCOMPLIANT.
Oh, and yes, I do think that an overhaul is a good idea. And Gerv found
some critical missing content.
Axel
