Other thoughts:
Whatever language is used for this or any general app needs to consider the
end user. The general end user is not a power sys admin, but someone who
installs out of the box, uses only the defaults, and never updates. If Perl
or Ruby or what ever is used is installed on the user's
I read somewhere that Trebuchet and Veranda were considered the best fonts
for online reading. Could that help the readability? Does anyone know what
the current font is?
Steve
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> The current display format is highly unreadable.
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On Wed, 14 Jun 2006, Shane Hathaway wrote:
Thomas Haws wrote:
This is very intriguing. Can you point to an example we might install
and try?
I hope someone else knows of an example. Conceptually, it's simple, and
I can see the solution from start to finish. But I'm surprised it
hasn't been
Thomas Haws wrote:
> This is very intriguing. Can you point to an example we might install
> and try?
I hope someone else knows of an example. Conceptually, it's simple, and
I can see the solution from start to finish. But I'm surprised it
hasn't been done very often. Maybe we need a proof of
This is very intriguing. Can you point to an example we might install and try?
If I understand right, you are saying I can run it on my desktop for
my troop, or I can run it at a web server for my troop or for the
entire council or church?
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Gary Thornock wrote:
> That means, though, that you require the user to have a web
> server installed on his computer (either because your installer
> put it there, or because he already had one). This brings me
> back to a comment I made several days ago: sure, I *can* install
> a LAMP applicatio
--- Thomas Haws <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Shane, I'd like to follow up on this:
>
> On 6/14/06, Shane Hathaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Yes. The installer will put the web app in the Program
>> Files directory and a shortcut will be added to the menu and
>> desktop. The shortcut will bot
Thomas Haws wrote:
> Shane, I'd like to follow up on this:
>
> On 6/14/06, Shane Hathaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Yes. The installer will put the web app in the Program Files directory
>> and a shortcut will be added to the menu and desktop. The shortcut will
>> both launch the web app and
Shane, I'd like to follow up on this:
On 6/14/06, Shane Hathaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Yes. The installer will put the web app in the Program Files directory
and a shortcut will be added to the menu and desktop. The shortcut will
both launch the web app and launch the user's browser once
On 6/14/06, Shane Hathaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Now, as for choosing the web app server technology... yikes. Please be
nice to each other. :-) FWIW, I'd vote for Django in this case. Django
is written in Python, a highly agile and portable language, and it's
inspired by Zope, Ruby on Rai
> In that case having a paragraph format would be nice. If you ever tried
> using your 1920 pixel width to read the scriptures (in the normal font
> size) you will be faced with little more than whitespace.
Regarding this, I must admit that my all time favorite version of The
Book of Mormon to rea
Thomas Haws wrote:
Shane,
1.
be careful to use cross-platform technologies. Shell scripts, assembly
code, and ActiveX are bad ideas, because we need portable code for the
next steps.
Can you please clarify this? Is PHP a shell script?
PHP is a scripting language, however, it seems to be po
Thomas Haws wrote:
>> off the footnote letters
>
> I strongly agree. :-)
I do too.
>> I wouldn't want more than one column. I see no benefits to that. Nor
>> would I want a column of some arbitrary width.
>
> I agree. One column and leave width to the browser or provide a
> draggable frame
> I wouldn't want more than one column. I see no benefits to that. Nor
> would I want a column of some arbitrary width. I'm quite capable of
> selecting the width that is best for me. I have a nice 24" widescreen
> monitor set at 1920x1200. I really don't need someone deciding I can
> only use
Thomas Haws wrote:
> 1.
>> be careful to use cross-platform technologies. Shell scripts, assembly
>> code, and ActiveX are bad ideas, because we need portable code for the
>> next steps.
> Can you please clarify this? Is PHP a shell script?
No, PHP is not a shell script, but I'm not certain it's
off the footnote letters
I strongly agree. :-)
I wouldn't want more than one column. I see no benefits to that. Nor
would I want a column of some arbitrary width.
I agree. One column and leave width to the browser or provide a
draggable frame width that's initially somewhat narrow.
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On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 01:55:30PM -0400, Charles Fry wrote:
> The issues that bother me are:
>
> I constantly find myself cutting and pasting from the online scriptures
> into documents I am editing. Doing this with footnotes enabled is a
> trecherous endeaver, as the footnote letters get copied
Shane,
1.
be careful to use cross-platform technologies. Shell scripts, assembly
code, and ActiveX are bad ideas, because we need portable code for the
next steps.
Can you please clarify this? Is PHP a shell script?
2. Server technology
I am ashamed to say I have never heard of Django. Isn
Dan Hanks wrote:
> Having said that, my personal belief is that computers and particularly
> web technologies have been developed and are advancing to further the
> work of
> the Lord, to provide greater convenience and efficiency in doing His
> work. They provide accelerated means of handling the
Charles Fry wrote:
If the Church is not ready to officially launch this project, I suggest
that one be created on Savannah or SourceForge, and that those
interested start moving forward with it.
I would suggest this be done in any case... There may be non-LDS OSS
developers that may want
Bryan Murdock wrote:
I'd like to add that even in Boy Scouting, it's not *just* the
Scoutmaster that can and will update what kids have done. The
discussion so far almost seems to be based on the supposition that the
Scoutmaster runs the troop as some lone wolf, but that is entirely
untrue. He
Dan Hanks wrote:
Dan Hanks made the following basic points (summarized):
1) parents can update what their kids have done
This is not applicable to Boy Scouts, btw. Only Scoutmasters do this --
with 1 or 2 merit badge exceptions.
Good point. However, it _is_ applicable for Duty to God and
> Given that, I propose two things:
>
> 1) the OSS community builds a free open source scout tracking application
> that runs on a stand-alone computer, that incorporates a good import/export
> function, that integrates with Excel or other office products, etc. Windows
> is the most common platfo
On 14 Jun 2006 at 8:04, Steven H. McCown wrote:
> Justin Findlay asked "Why should any of this be bigger than troop
> level?"
Because some areas run their scouting program on a wider scale.
Our stake averages only about three youth per age group per
ward. While each ward registers its own units
The issues that bother me are:
I constantly find myself cutting and pasting from the online scriptures
into documents I am editing. Doing this with footnotes enabled is a
trecherous endeaver, as the footnote letters get copied into the text
which is pasted. I just noticed the "Hide footnote indica
Excellent news! Thanks!
Tom>>> "Charles Boling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 6/14/2006 10:05 AM >>>No beefs to report; just want to say that I like the options under "print" to be able to hide the superscripts, etc. Makes it a bit easier to include quotes in other documents!
On 6/13/06, Gary Thornock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
The other make-or-break feature I haven't heard about
yet in this discussion is the ScoutNet standard for reporting
advancement and such like things to the council office.
This is a very good point. Is there an online Tour Permit submission
On 6/14/06, Dan Hanks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Wed, 14 Jun 2006, Steven H. McCown wrote:
> I like this discussion -- civil and yet in disagreement...cool.
Indeed :-)
>
> Dan Hanks made the following basic points (summarized):
>
>> 1) parents can update what their kids have done
>
> This i
On Wed, 14 Jun 2006, Steven H. McCown wrote:
I like this discussion -- civil and yet in disagreement...cool.
Indeed :-)
Dan Hanks made the following basic points (summarized):
1) parents can update what their kids have done
This is not applicable to Boy Scouts, btw. Only Scoutmasters d
No beefs to report; just want to say that I like the options under "print"
to be able to hide the superscripts, etc. Makes it a bit easier to include
quotes in other documents!
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I like this discussion -- civil and yet in disagreement...cool.
Dan Hanks made the following basic points (summarized):
> 1) parents can update what their kids have done
This is not applicable to Boy Scouts, btw. Only Scoutmasters do this --
with 1 or 2 merit badge exceptions.
> 2) leaders
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