Re: mod_mbox development plan

2005-07-03 Thread Nick Kew
Roy T.Fielding wrote: On Jul 2, 2005, at 7:46 PM, Maxime Petazzoni wrote: The first thing that has to be done is, of course, get rid of the hard coded HTML and switch to something more flexible. Careful with getting rid. I haven't looked at it myself, but I wonder if cleaning it up and

Re: mod_mbox development plan

2005-07-03 Thread Paul Querna
Roy T. Fielding wrote: On Jul 2, 2005, at 7:46 PM, Maxime Petazzoni wrote: The main goal of my SoC project is to enhance mod_mbox's interface by using newer web development techniques and/or technologies, while avoiding any noticeable slowdowns. That's good, but keep in mind the general

Re: mod_mbox development plan

2005-07-03 Thread Maxime Petazzoni
Hi, I believe the core goal is separation of data from presentation. The standard reply is to use some kind of template language. A glue. Let it be PHP, XSLT, ClearSilver, or any of the other hundreds out there. Why do we want glue? I believe that XHTML, no matter how masterfully

Re: mod_mbox development plan

2005-07-03 Thread Roy T . Fielding
On Jul 3, 2005, at 1:29 AM, Paul Querna wrote: I believe the core goal is separation of data from presentation. No, the core goal is to provide an ultra-efficient interface to large mail archives. The data is already available in mbox form. The standard reply is to use some kind of template

Re: mod_mbox development plan

2005-07-03 Thread Roy T . Fielding
On Jul 3, 2005, at 4:18 AM, Maxime Petazzoni wrote: +1. XML has the particularity to describe only the data, as opposed to XHTML which stores data *and* structure information. No, XML is a data structuring (mark-up) metalanguage. The only difference between arbitrary XML and XHTML is that

mod_mbox development plan

2005-07-02 Thread Maxime Petazzoni
Hi, As you probably already know, a couple of students will be working on ASF projects during the summer within Google's Summer Of Code program. I have the chance to being one of the few selected for this adventure, and I will be working on improving mod_mbox's interface. Members of the mod_mbox

Re: mod_mbox development plan

2005-07-02 Thread Roy T . Fielding
On Jul 2, 2005, at 7:46 PM, Maxime Petazzoni wrote: The main goal of my SoC project is to enhance mod_mbox's interface by using newer web development techniques and/or technologies, while avoiding any noticeable slowdowns. That's good, but keep in mind the general design principle to avoid