Hi Werner: A number of problems have developed with the news sidebar of our website.
1. The URL of our news feed has changed as a result of the migration to the Allura software at SourceForge. It is now http://sourceforge.net/p/plplot/news/feed, and there is no &rss_limit=?? parameter on that URL. The old location of http://sourceforge.net/export/rss2_projnews.php?group_id=2915&rss_limit=?? redirects to http://sourceforge.net/p/plplot/news/feed so we always get 10 news items at plplot.sf.net which is too much. The simplepie FAQ has an example showing how to display just one news feed item. I don't understand that example, but you might be able to adapt it to display (say) 3 news items. 2. Something about the simplepie method we are using right now is breaking the look of our website. The green line that is supposed to border each page now stops very short (just below the menu) with a broken bottom line. If you remove the news feed altogether this problem goes away and the website looks good again with no broken green line. 3. We are using an old version of simplepie which might be the source of issue 2. Anyhow, we should probably upgrade to the latest version but that upgrade is non-trivial (simplepie.inc has been replaced with a number of different files). Would you be willing to take a look at these issues the next time you have a chance to work on PLplot? Alan __________________________ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); the Time Ephemerides project (timeephem.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting software package (plplot.sf.net); the libLASi project (unifont.org/lasi); the Loads of Linux Links project (loll.sf.net); and the Linux Brochure Project (lbproject.sf.net). __________________________ Linux-powered Science __________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ October Webinars: Code for Performance Free Intel webinars can help you accelerate application performance. Explore tips for MPI, OpenMP, advanced profiling, and more. Get the most from the latest Intel processors and coprocessors. See abstracts and register > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=60133471&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
