On Fri, 21 Feb 2003, Gabor Hojtsy wrote:

> I am quite disappointed that no reply was posted to this RFC. I donated 
> significant time to dig up all details, and I have also written this 
> twice, as I had crash, before sending the first version. So I needed to 
> write it again. Well, I have expected many replys, but nothing...

With all due respect, the ideas are nice, but IMO it will only cause a 
lot of work while there is no direct benefit from it. I think it will be 
impossible to maintain.

> > Customizing the php.net site
> > ----------------------------
> > 
> > The core offer of My php.net would be to set the preferred
> > language [PL from now], and the preferred mirror site [PM].

That would be a nice thing, and not much work, but remind the KISS 
principle: Keep It Simple Stupid. ie, only have a cookie for the 
prefered language, and one for the prefered mirror.

> > Therefore I thought about making php.net the mirror redirection server.
> > This means that if you would like to access a page on php.net but you
> > have a different [PM] set, then you are redirected to that
> > site instead. That would drive much traffic off php.net again :)

But will be terribly annoying if the mirror is not working correctly. 
This is only a nice idea if it can be circumvented in an easy way.

> > More settings
> > -------------
> > 
> > We can add more settings in the future, as these two core ones are added
> > and work ;) Some ideas:
> > 
> >   - Default bug email address to submit bugs with

Please no, this will only encourage reporting 'bugs'. If people think 
they found a bug they can fill their email address. 

> > Actually they don't need to look the same, but they need to use the same
> > HTML
> > code. We can add JS parts to work with the preference cookie in JS, and do
> > something differently, eg. drop out the left side manual toc using client
> > side DOM. We can also include a JS file on the top using <script>, and put
> > all the user depandant things there, so the PHP page output can be cached,
> > while that JS will be outputted from PHP with non-cache headers.
> > 
> > This is something for the far future, and I think some of you won't
> > be too keen on the idea, so this is also up for discussion...

No funky jabbascript please, as there are people who use lynx for 
reading the manual.

Derick

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