On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 2:39 AM, Peter Saint-Andre <[email protected]> wrote: > On 4/12/11 3:38 PM, Paul Staroch wrote: >> Am 2011-04-12 23:33, schrieb Peter Saint-Andre: >>> On 4/12/11 3:31 PM, Sean Dilda wrote: >>>> On 4/12/11 5:25 PM, Peter Saint-Andre wrote: >>>>> On 4/12/11 3:24 PM, Sean Dilda wrote: >>>>>> Thanks for doing the new site. However, with Chrome on my mac, the >>>>>> formatting is weird. I only see the first few characters of the >>>>>> 'Primary Admin' field, and have to scroll to the right to see the rest >>>>>> even though there's plenty of horizontal space to the sides. >>>>> I think we might need to drop one of the columns, but I'm not sure >>>>> which... >>>>> >>>>>> Also, a few servers don't have lat/long which makes their columns appear >>>>>> weird. >>>>> We need to gather that data by poking the admins of those services. >>>>> >>>> >>>> If you're looking for suggestions, I say drop the lat/long columns and >>>> kill two birds with one stone. The lat/long doesn't provide much info >>>> that the country doesn't. This is especially true when you consider how >>>> easy it is to host a service in multiple datacenters or even have your >>>> service hosted in a cloud where you don't know what datacenter you're >>>> actually in. >>> As I recall, some clients (e.g., Pidgin) use the lat/lon to show a fancy >>> interface for choosing a server for registration purposes. But it would >>> be good to verify that they still do so. I'll ping their dev list. >>> >>> Peter >>> >> >> Don't these clients use the XML data at >> http://xmpp.org/services/services-full.xml? > > Correct, but we'll start auto-generating that XML file from the data in > the WordPress database, I think. Still to be determined... > > Peter >
Here's a bit of XSL to generate XML from the wordpress page: https://gist.github.com/916477 By the way, am I the only one who feels bad about generating XML from the wordpress data rather than the other way around? I was in fact thinking of suggesting extending the XML data. Particularly it should specify whether a service supports IBR, and a link to a registration web page if it doesn't. -- Waqas Hussain
