It arrived, today. (Practical mod_perl ) My first impression was ...!,
this is a Fat Book!!!
while I browse the book, I found some chapters importants.
I believe that all know to Stas Bekman for your contributions to mod_perl
documentation and tests, this is a good book, and I hope to discuss his content
with us.
Regards.
Perrin Harkins wrote:
On Fri, 2003-06-13 at 03:46, Slava Bizyayev wrote:
Every good book about mod_perl achievements can result in better contractsfor each of us and can bring aboard new talented contributors. A bad bookcan damage/destroy public interest and finally can kill this technology.
There are many bad books about Perl and they haven't killed it. Regardless, I think what you're forgetting here is that you arecomplaining about a problem that is very obscure.
Personally I fail to understand: Why would Ihesitate to ask list for a help being ordered to write (or review) things inwhich I feel not quite expert?
Stas asked many times for people to review the book, and some of us did.If I were writing a book and wanted to include a small example ofcompression, I would expect that reading the FAQ, reading the POD forthe modules, and testing one of them out with whatever browsers I havehandy would be enough. I would not feel the need to run an exhaustivetest of every browser ever made just for a couple of pages in a hugebook that is mostly about other things.
To date there are no other module aroundwith close set of properties and options... And I can not write this in myFAQ myself. Because it would be reasonably considered an impolite behavior.
You can write the simple facts of the situation. The things you justmentioned on the list about Netscape 4 support are not in the FAQ. Neither is Apache::CompressClientFixup. You need to put them there, orno one will know about these issues.For example, you could add a section like this:Q: Are there any known problems with specific browsers?A: Yes, Netscape 4 has problems with compressed cascading style sheetsand _javascript_ files. Apache::Dynagzip handles this by detectingNetscape 4 and leaving those files uncompressed. If you are using oneof the other modules, you can use Apache::CompressClientFixup to disablecompression for these files You get the idea. As long as you talk about specific issues anddon't generally slam the other modules, no one will be upset by it.- Perrin
