On 1/2/2006 6:14 PM, hadley wickham wrote: >>>The reason is the way HTML *frames* are used in setup of the Web site. >>>It would be very helpful if the Web site were revised so that many if >>>not most pages had their own URL's, allowing the use of bookmarks. >> >>I suspect that the webmasters (and -mistresses?) in Vienna are not >>thrilled by the thought of a complete website redesign... >> > > > Another problem with frames is that if you come in from a search > engine, you lose the navigation (and context) making it impossible to > move around the site. For example, google for R foundation and click > on the second hit. > > Although not a completely trivial process, converting the R website to > not use frames would not be a hideously difficult undertaking. The > html files already have nice (ie. google friendly) names and it would > be largely a task of adding a common navigation bar to each page. > This could be done nicely with some kind of server side include (eg. > SSI, php) and some css. This, however, would have repercussions for > the server software necessary to mirror the R website (although > generally it would be a matter of flipping a few switches in apache or > whatever software was been used) >
You can check out from https://svn.r-project.org/R-project-web/branches/DJM/ a version I started to put together using this approach. It isn't hard to edit, but it did place unacceptable requirements on the server. Duncan Murdoch ______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
