Shawn Walker wrote:
> 2008/7/11 Chris Ridd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>> Shawn Walker wrote:
>>> Admittedly, the current default does make sense from the perspective
>>> that the depot server is a web server too and you are expected to be
>>> able to browse its contents.
>> Are any other operations anticipated from a web browser? I was surprised
>> to see Firefox connecting off to some yahoo site for some javascript
>> when browsing my apparently static-looking repo.
> 
> Yes, in fact I'm working on rss/atom feed support at the moment based
> on work Stephen did.

Yes, that ought to be tremendously useful. I shall look forward to using 
NetNewsWire against my repo :-)

> As for the yahoo site. While the current plan is to use their
> stylesheets and javascript, I plan on adding local copies of what we
> use to ips itself.

I just checked and it only seems to use external CSS at the moment, not 
external Javascript. That nulls out most of my issue with having links 
to yahoo.

> Since the depot server is likely to be run from an internal network,
> it doesn't make sense for it to rely on external resources. Especially
> since the user may not have an internet connection available.

I agree.

Cheers,

Chris

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