Couple of things I'd add. An XHTML/CSS alternative frontend would probably work in PDAs as well. I'd like to have a HTML version of the site if possible, for when I'm too lazy to install Flash on my Linux box (that's right, I still haven't gotten around it, will do it soon), and for my venerable Pentium 133 laptop with its 256 colour 800x600 screen, where a Flash animation would prolly slow things to a crawl (heck, it's a crawl already most of the time). Not to mention Lynx / Links (yes, I do sometimes use it, and I know, I'm a freak :))
Anyway, I would even consider coding the HTML frontend (although I know that any promises I make now will probably result in vigorous self-administered banging of head against hard object later)
Toby suggested that you generate XML content instead of HTML. If you do, I'll attempt to make an XSLT stylesheet for converting the XML into XHTML (like Kai aka 'the German guy' suggested). XSLT is already on my list of things to learn and this sounds like a worthy cause.
I can also make a nice CSS stylesheet, especially if I'm allowed to rip off some colours from the Flash frontend to work with.
About the mailing list... I've still got severe interface poisoning from using the Lyris webGUI at MXDU. I'd wager that it would be easier to use a news (NNTP) client to pull messages from Lyris, and then parse the results. Alternately we would most likely find a ready made news client a la CFPOP either for CF or Java. The webGUI hideously maims every single piece of example code and also shows up multipart email messages twice (shiver). I suspect it would be considerably harder trying to parse its output.
But the mailing list can be left for later. Better to get the site up first and then add features than to fall victim to feature creep right at the start.
Whaddayathink?
Vik
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