"and that's why he's cranky. (Well, more so than he usually is.... :-)"
A wealth of vintage cmp information, but good heavens he is cranky. -- Anders Nelson +1 (517) 775-6129 www.erogear.com On Wed, Aug 14, 2019 at 2:01 PM Noel Chiappa via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > >> Al Kossow via cctalk writes: > > >> Buried in a filing cabinet in the basement with a sign that says > >> "Beware of Leopard". > > Good one! > > > From: Seth J. Morabito > > > I'm going to respectfully disagree .. the proliferation of modern > > JavaScript frameworks that are designed to build single-page apps, > and > > make the web virtually impossible to scrape or mirror in an efficient > > and simple way. ... every single page is statically generated at > > publishing time and absolutely nothing is dynamic. > > It's not clear that it's the dynamic nature of the content he's unhappy > with; > it might just be that having stuff scattered across a zillion personal > pages > (be they blogs, or whatever) is going to make it hard to find the useful > one > when needed, and that's why he's cranky. (Well, more so than he usually > is.... :-) > > If it's got something oddball term in the text, a Web indexer might be able > to find it, but what if your search term turns up 17,239 matches? Finding > the > useful needle in the hackstack of crap on the current Web is a tall order - > so tall, that I suspect a lot of people don't even try, just shoot off an > email to CCTalk in the hopes that someone here will enlighten them. > > I've seen a number of instances recently where people's questions were > answered on the CHWiki, but apparently they couldn't find it. So they > wound up asking here... > > Noel >