George, thanks for making the effort. But two things:
For one, this list is not easily integrated in our normal work. As we talked earlier, you need to supply a *patch* (alert: technical term). For this you need a current trunk checkout. The relevant file is documentation/manual/source/pages/glossary.rst. Then you modify that file, adhering to its style and reST rules, and create a patch documenting your changes. This patch you then submit, ideally as an attachment to a bug in bugzilla. - That means, you have to acquaint yourself with svn, rst, patch (the program) and bugzilla :). A glossary should also not just expand acronyms, but give brief definitions for terms. Second, I'm not sure we're on the right level of granularity here. Terms like AJAX, API, GUI, HTML or XML are too general in my opinion. Although I understand your motivation, you have to assume the glossary is for somebody who has a basic Web-tech background, and already knows all these things. I think it would be stretching our manual too far if we tried to cover these basics, and we should rather focus on qooxdoo-specific terms, or terms that have a qooxdoo-specific interpretation. We shouldn't cover terms that are easily looked up through Google, Acronymfinder.com or Wikipedia. Cheers, T. On 02/04/2011 03:09 PM, gkoller wrote: > > > Hej! > > For the new Qooxdoo Glossary - JUST ADD TO THE APPROPRIATE LIST AND SAVE - > and I'll to the rest. Intend to wrap it up before the end of the February. > > > > ========LIST OF ACRONYMS ==== > > AJAX (Asyncronous JavaScript and XML) > > API (Application Programming Interface) > > BOM (Low-level Browser Object Model layer) Base Object Model? > > CRUD > > CSS (Cascading Style Sheets... > > (qx) DEV - Development and debugging Tools > > DOM (Document Object Model) > > FSM (Finite State Machine - a package? within qx) > > GUI (Graphical User Interface) > > HTML (Hypertext Markup Language) > > JS, js - (Java Script) > > Json (JavaScript Object Notation) > > MVC, (Model, View, Controller) (The three major parts of many frameworks) > > RIA (Rich Internet Interface) > > > RPC (Remote Procedure Call) > > SKD (Software Development Kit) > > UI User Interface > > > XML (Extensible Markup Language) > > > > ============TERMS============= > > Comet? > > Client - Fat/Thin > > Constructors / Destructors > > Cookies > > JavaDoc > > > STORE > MODEL > CONTROLLER > VIEW > > PERSISTANCE > > > QUIRKS (Mode) > > Tool Chain (??) > > WIDGETS > > POLLUTION - see qx.dev > > NAMESPACE > > Selenium > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The modern datacenter depends on network connectivity to access resources and provide services. The best practices for maximizing a physical server's connectivity to a physical network are well understood - see how these rules translate into the virtual world? http://p.sf.net/sfu/oracle-sfdevnlfb _______________________________________________ qooxdoo-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/qooxdoo-devel
