> On 17. Feb 2025, at 08:06, David Niklas via mc-devel
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> * Ideally clean and light design (think terminalcss.xyz), accessible
>> and browsable with both text mode / legacy browsers and modern software.
> Umm, why use a framework if we're just doing a few pages? Like, one css
> file is all we'd need. No framework necessary, right?
Right, that's not a hard requirement. It's just that if I end up doing it
myself, I'm definitely going to use Bootstrap or something to avoid writing my
own normalization code and/or otherwise fiddling with differences between
browsers, reinventing my own grid system, etc.
The days when I knew the exact differences between MSIE 4/5, Netscape 4.75 and
Opera 5 rendering engines by heart are long gone, and I'm not interested in
investing more than the bare minimum in maintenance at the expense of
bulkiness, which is irrelevant these days anyway. Upgrading Bootstrap has been
a pleasant experience over the years (compared to maintaining my own resets and
hacks).
>> * The implementation should be HTML5, using some static generator -
>> maybe hugo or mkdocs?
> HTML5 isn't supported by legacy browsers such as lynx. You might use a
> subset of the markup language, and that would work. Why is HTML5 a hard
> requirement?
Define "not supported". Lynx renders HTML5 structured with graceful degradation
in mind perfectly well. By HTML5, I meant clean, modern, accessible code that
takes advantage of all the latest semantic constructs, not that it should be
completely useless in old/text-mode browsers. In fact, I specifically mentioned
the opposite.
>> * There should be room for an AdSense plug.
> Because you know everyone loves ads. ;)
They pay for the domain and SSL certificates though, so I'd like to keep the
account active. You can have a look at what it is right now. A single ad at the
bottom of a single page, and it pays for the domain, that's it.
It's not like there's a secret commotion by some underground benefactor to
invest a few million of bitcoin proceeds into a newly formed Midnight Commander
Foundation that will make this point irrelevant.
Besides, those who *don't* love ads are browsing with AdBlock enabled, aren't
they? And I haven't seen many ads in Lynx either.
> What sort of timeframe are you looking to get this done in?
I have no hard deadlines, but ideally a few months. I hope to make some
progress on other fronts (ticket and wiki migrations) by the end of March. This
will make a home page migration possible, but it can be postponed for quite a
while by simply making parts of Trac read-only, which I hope is not too
complicated.
All the best,
Yury
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