website identifiers

2003-12-27 Thread Thomas Dickey
When perusing the website for news, it would be useful if the pages were marked (in their source) as generated or manually updated. For the former (unless they're generated on demand), a modification date would also be useful. For the latter, an RCS/CVS/etc identifier to distinguish successive

Re: website identifiers

2003-12-27 Thread Harold L Hunt II
Thomas Dickey wrote: When perusing the website for news, it would be useful if the pages were marked (in their source) as generated or manually updated. For the former (unless they're generated on demand), a modification date would also be useful. For the latter, an RCS/CVS/etc identifier to

Re: website identifiers

2003-12-27 Thread Harold L Hunt II
Thomas Dickey wrote: When perusing the website for news, it would be useful if the pages were marked (in their source) as generated or manually updated. For the former (unless they're generated on demand), a modification date would also be useful. For the latter, an RCS/CVS/etc identifier to

Re: website identifiers

2003-12-27 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Sat, 27 Dec 2003, Harold L Hunt II wrote: Thomas Dickey wrote: When perusing the website for news, it would be useful if the pages were marked (in their source) as generated or manually updated. For the former (unless they're generated on demand), a modification date would also be

Re: website identifiers

2003-12-27 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Sat, 27 Dec 2003, Harold L Hunt II wrote: Would CVS identifiers still be useful for whatever you are trying to do? Maybe I'll start adding them as comments for starters but still keep the hand-modified date for each page. That's what I do, e.g.,

Re: website identifiers

2003-12-27 Thread Harold L Hunt II
Thomas Dickey wrote: On Sat, 27 Dec 2003, Harold L Hunt II wrote: Would CVS identifiers still be useful for whatever you are trying to do? Maybe I'll start adding them as comments for starters but still keep the hand-modified date for each page. That's what I do, e.g.,

Re: website identifiers

2003-12-27 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Sat, 27 Dec 2003, Harold L Hunt II wrote: Okay. Each page should now have: HEADER MODIFIED: $Date$ $Author$ LEFT SIDEBAR MODIFIED: $Date$ $Author$ BODY MODIFIED: $Date$ $Author$ FOOTER MODIFIED: $Date$ $Author$ that's better. -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net