The webmasters have not AFAICS replied in this thread, and perhaps you should wait for them.
In particular, making cran.r-project.org an autodirector to the nearest mirror and replacing frames have I believe already been agreed and just need resources to implement (and first www. and cran.r-project.org are being moved to new hardware at a different physical site). Please remember that as always R has very limited human resources and is the web site a high priority within those resources? (I don't judge it so.) You will find discussion of frames vs css in the archives. On Wed, 26 Apr 2006, Romain Francois wrote: > Hi, > > To sum up : > * yes, the R website is operationnal. There is no reason whatsoever to > change its content. > * no javascript, no flash, no chartjunk !! > * rework the style, start wih the css file(s) > * stop with those frames, and use css to place some kind of fake frames > * maybe store the name of your CRAN in a cookie > > What about > - place somewhere a div called 'Focus on a package' where we could have > a short presentation of a package, etc ... or for a CRAN task view (to > do that, php would be great, but we can do I don't know perl scripts to > generate static html pages) > - a direct link to download R, which will redirect to the appropriate > CRAN thanks to cookies > - Propose the Table of Contents of the last volume of R news. > - reduce the ratio (size of the head page graphic) / (information > directly accesible) > - move search, task views, and documentation from cran to www > > > Romain > > > > From roger bos : >> After all, the r-help list doesn't even like HTML in email, so it may >> not like too many fancy stuff on their website either. > html in email is evil. html in a website is normal. > > > From Jon Baron : >> The only thing I might change is to replace the frames with some >> sort of CSS-based positioning. HOWEVER, the new version of >> Internet Explorer may totally destroy the usefulness of CSS, so >> maybe it is better to leave things as they are for now. > What ! IE is not the only browser, and so not the better. Despite is > dominant position, i don't think all website will abandon doing css > because microsoft is not able to make its browser understand it. > > > > -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ [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
