On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 12:12 PM, Kay Schenk <[email protected]> wrote: > I am proposing that we adopt plain HTML for the OOo website instead of the > current markdown (mdtext) implementation. > > I hesitate to make this recommendation given ALL the time and research Dave > and others have already spent on the current incubator website, but, I feel, > given that we will be migrating a rather large existing site, it makes > sense. >
Where can I find the sources for the current website? Not the wiki stuff, but the parts that you think would be difficult to migrate? > I also realize that doing this will "break" the ability to use the webgui > editing capability of the Apache CMS, forcing everyone to use svn for page > updates. However, I don't have a good feel right now for the ultimate impact > of that -- e.g. what do we expect in terms of web site editors. > > This would allow us to continue to use the default template system > (Dotiac::DTL) but eliminate the need for wrapping or intermixing markdown > text with normal HTML. HTML files shouldn't require any "wrapping" functions > at all I think, since this is the indigenous format for web servers. We > would have to bypass header, footer and navigation items for anything that > *isn't* html, like js, css files. > We should also consider that the best approach might be to not do mdtext and not do Dotiac::DTL, but to adopt a newer framework. > Unfortunately, I've had a very difficult time this week trying to find any > information on the setup details of Dotiac::DTL (documentation not > available) -- the relationship of the two .pm files to the template areas, > etc. > > I took at look around at many the Apache web areas (svn) at: > > http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/ > > You will see, as I did, that the vast majority are not using markdown, and > this is NOT a requirement. > > Anyway, thoughts/comments on this proposal? HTML is not a panacea, of course. It is very easy to design pages that look bad, are broken from portability, internationalization and accessibility standpoint, introduce security issues, etc. So having a constrained markup can be a good thing for a web site that you expect many people of various skill levels to edit. Just a thought: Could you do the entire website in MediaWiki, with only exception cases (download page, etc.) done in HTML? > -- > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > MzK > > "Those who love deeply never grow old; > they may die of old age, but they die young." > -- Sir Arthur Pinero >
