Re: PlkrData Alpha Up

2002-11-19 Thread Fringe Ryder
At 02:01 AM 11/20/2002 +, Robert O'Connor wrote: Looking through, I think it is very nicely done. Great work! Thanks. For exclusion lists, this has come up before with regards to how to package these with descriptions of sites, since that is arguably the most important part, as it is th

Re: PlkrData Alpha Up

2002-11-19 Thread Robert O'Connor
On 19 Nov 2002 at 11:29, Fringe Ryder wrote: > Since I haven't gotten any more feedback, I finished up icon functionality > my way and have tossed her up on the web. > > http://kittycentral.net/Plucker/PlkrData.html > > Both sources and a Windows binary are there. > > All the basics work

Re: Non-HTML (was Re: Back/foward/home function code)

2002-11-19 Thread David A. Desrosiers
> > Yes! We want in Plucker now! > I enjoyed the Python comment next to the 'blink' on the list of currently > unimplemented tags in the Parser (TextParser.py, around line 855). Props > to whoever wrote that in. Appears to be Ondrej back in Parser.py, almost to the day 11/22/99.

Re: Non-HTML (was Re: Back/foward/home function code)

2002-11-19 Thread Robert O'Connor
On 20 Nov 2002 at 0:55, MJ Ray wrote: > Robert O'Connor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > -Others: maybe the "marquee" tag from MSIE 3.x days, and all the other non- > > standard crap that has come and gone over the years. > > Yes! We want in Plucker now! I enjoyed the Python comment next to the

Re: Non-HTML (was Re: Back/foward/home function code)

2002-11-19 Thread MJ Ray
Robert O'Connor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -Others: maybe the "marquee" tag from MSIE 3.x days, and all the other non- > standard crap that has come and gone over the years. Yes! We want in Plucker now! Seriously, has anyone who asks for support for standards-breaking actually thought the eff

Re: Bulletin Board instead of Mailing List?

2002-11-19 Thread Fringe Ryder
At 12:17 AM 11/20/2002 +, MJ Ray wrote: Fringe Ryder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I find a mailing list nearly ideal. The only detriments to it are that the= > odd message is flagged as spam by my filters and I haven't determined why,= You need to add the lists to your whitelist or scorefi

Re: Non-HTML (was Re: Back/foward/home function code)

2002-11-19 Thread Fringe Ryder
At 11:54 PM 11/19/2002 +, Robert O'Connor wrote: On 19 Nov 2002 at 15:22, Fringe Ryder wrote: > At 10:53 PM 11/19/2002 +, Robert O'Connor wrote: > >On 18 Nov 2002 at 21:43, Laurens M. Fridael wrote: > > > complying with W3C standards is hardly a priority or > > > even a consideration. >

Re: Bulletin Board instead of Mailing List?

2002-11-19 Thread MJ Ray
Fringe Ryder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I find a mailing list nearly ideal. The only detriments to it are that the= > odd message is flagged as spam by my filters and I haven't determined why,= You need to add the lists to your whitelist or scorefile. > and that threads I care nothing about st

Re: Bulletin Board instead of Mailing List?

2002-11-19 Thread MJ Ray
Blake Winton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Not all of the "advantages". If I subscribed to the lists today > as a new subscriber, I couldn't reply to any message before today. Yes, you can. The archive site allows you to download a mailbox with all messages to date in it, which you can then read

Re: Back/foward/home function code

2002-11-19 Thread Fringe Ryder
At 10:53 PM 11/19/2002 +, Robert O'Connor wrote: On 18 Nov 2002 at 21:43, Laurens M. Fridael wrote: > complying with W3C standards is hardly a priority or > even a consideration. I would tend to differ on that point. Over the next few years, Plucker is going to become the dominant force as

Re: VFS Best Practice

2002-11-19 Thread Robert O'Connor
On 25 Oct 2002 at 10:35, Wayne A. Arthurton wrote: > What are people doing to install your Plucker DBs to a memory card w/o > having to manually change the location on each one? > > I'm considering making all my DBs start with pkr e.g. pkrSlashDot and > then have in script run a move all DBs th

Re: Back/foward/home function code

2002-11-19 Thread Laurens M. Fridael
Robert O'Connor wrote: > On 18 Nov 2002 at 21:43, Laurens M. Fridael wrote: > >> complying with W3C standards is hardly a priority or >> even a consideration. > > I would tend to differ on that point. You're quoting out of context! I already had a lengthy discussion with David about this. I'm not

Re: Back/foward/home function code

2002-11-19 Thread Robert O'Connor
On 19 Nov 2002 at 11:12, David A. Desrosiers wrote: > Ugh, the worst of the offenders. There are no forms on the Onion's > website, yet they still need to rely on this pods://avantgo/back syntax? > Useless. On that page, _ALL_ articles reference index.html, and to all > articles, index.html

Re: Back/foward/home function code

2002-11-19 Thread Robert O'Connor
On 18 Nov 2002 at 21:43, Laurens M. Fridael wrote: > complying with W3C standards is hardly a priority or > even a consideration. I would tend to differ on that point. Over the next few years, Plucker is going to become the dominant force as it continues to mature and the commercial alternati

Re: Bulletin Board instead of Mailing List?

2002-11-19 Thread Fringe Ryder
At 10:37 PM 11/19/2002 +0100, Michael Nordström wrote: On Tue, Nov 19, 2002, TIM CONSTANTINE wrote: > It seems to me that a Bulletin Board for communication would have > some serious advantages over this mailing list: As have already been pointed out the "advantages" are already available for th

RE: Bulletin Board instead of Mailing List?

2002-11-19 Thread Blake Winton
> On Tue, Nov 19, 2002, TIM CONSTANTINE wrote: > > It seems to me that a Bulletin Board for communication would have > > some serious advantages over this mailing list: > As have already been pointed out the "advantages" are already > available for the mailing list. Not all of the "advantages". I

Re: Bulletin Board instead of Mailing List?

2002-11-19 Thread Michael Nordström
On Tue, Nov 19, 2002, TIM CONSTANTINE wrote: > It seems to me that a Bulletin Board for communication would have > some serious advantages over this mailing list: As have already been pointed out the "advantages" are already available for the mailing list. If you started to use a differet system

Re: Bulletin Board instead of Mailing List?

2002-11-19 Thread TIM CONSTANTINE
I agree. >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 11/19/02 04:15PM >>> > Yes, I know different mailing lists could be created, but the whole > Plucker system needs to work together, and you may need to "jump into and > out of" different conversations to do what it is that you want to do. As long as it work

Re: Bulletin Board instead of Mailing List?

2002-11-19 Thread David A. Desrosiers
> Yes, I know different mailing lists could be created, but the whole > Plucker system needs to work together, and you may need to "jump into and > out of" different conversations to do what it is that you want to do. As long as it works directly with the mailing lists, and does not obsol

Re: PlkrData Alpha Up

2002-11-19 Thread TIM CONSTANTINE
Oh, OK... Thanks... Looking forward to it... >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 11/19/02 03:45PM >>> At 03:35 PM 11/19/2002 -0500, TIM CONSTANTINE wrote: >I understand that, but if Plucker Desktop is invoking PlkrData, then it >knows that something has changed and can just set ITSELF up. > >I guess what I'm

Re: Bulletin Board instead of Mailing List?

2002-11-19 Thread David A. Desrosiers
> It seems to me that a Bulletin Board for communication would have some > serious advantages over this mailing list: We've talked about this before. I've been wanting to create a nice search engine for the list(s) and FAQ and docs, and I have something very similar working on pilot-link.

Re: Bulletin Board instead of Mailing List?

2002-11-19 Thread TIM CONSTANTINE
It's threaded & searchable like a BB, but I don't have the ability to jump into and out of conversations. Also there's one "dev" list - with a BB, multiple categories can be created according to different developers tastes & aspirations (i.e. one for Plucker Desktop, one for Plucker Viewer, e

Re: Bulletin Board instead of Mailing List?

2002-11-19 Thread Fringe Ryder
At 03:21 PM 11/19/2002 -0500, TIM CONSTANTINE wrote: It seems to me that a Bulletin Board for communication would have some serious advantages over this mailing list: - It would be searchable - It would be easier to jump into & out of conversations - It would be easier to locate previous thread

Re: PlkrData Alpha Up

2002-11-19 Thread Fringe Ryder
At 03:35 PM 11/19/2002 -0500, TIM CONSTANTINE wrote: I understand that, but if Plucker Desktop is invoking PlkrData, then it knows that something has changed and can just set ITSELF up. I guess what I'm calling for is for whoever is working on Plucker Desktop (sorry, I don't know who's who yet

Re: Back/foward/home function code

2002-11-19 Thread Dave Maddock
>What about writing a Plucker authoring guide, with guidelines specifying >which parts of HTML are supported, how to achieve particular formatting, >what to do and what not to do, etc.? Or is there such a thing already? >I'm planning to write a reference for JPluck that explain how HTML is >parsed,

Re: PlkrData Alpha Up

2002-11-19 Thread TIM CONSTANTINE
I understand that, but if Plucker Desktop is invoking PlkrData, then it knows that something has changed and can just set ITSELF up. I guess what I'm calling for is for whoever is working on Plucker Desktop (sorry, I don't know who's who yet) to work with you to add your functionality to that pr

Re: PlkrData Alpha Up

2002-11-19 Thread Fringe Ryder
>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 11/19/02 02:29PM >>> Since I haven't gotten any more feedback, I finished up icon functionality my way and have tossed her up on the web. http://kittycentral.net/Plucker/PlkrData.html Feedback would be very appreciated. -Tony McNamara At 03:09 PM 11/19/2

Bulletin Board instead of Mailing List?

2002-11-19 Thread TIM CONSTANTINE
It seems to me that a Bulletin Board for communication would have some serious advantages over this mailing list: - It would be searchable - It would be easier to jump into & out of conversations - It would be easier to locate previous threads of discussion (history) phpBB would be good. Can th

Re: PlkrData Alpha Up

2002-11-19 Thread TIM CONSTANTINE
Great work Tony. This will be very handy. Just one comment - it seems to me that Plucker Desktop should be the one communicating with PlkrData, not the other way around. That is, you should be able to use the Plucker Desktop GUI to import/export channels (& behind the scenes, Plucker Desktop

Re: Back/foward/home function code

2002-11-19 Thread MJ Ray
Laurens M. Fridael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> it seems that SVG may not be in a happy place for free software >> either, because of patents held on some of its core methods. > Akin to the LZW patent used by GIF? I'll take a look. Actually, I think they're far more pervasive than that. With the

PlkrData Alpha Up

2002-11-19 Thread Fringe Ryder
Since I haven't gotten any more feedback, I finished up icon functionality my way and have tossed her up on the web. http://kittycentral.net/Plucker/PlkrData.html Both sources and a Windows binary are there. All the basics work - registration under Windows (not Linux yet), saving, and loading

Re: Back/foward/home function code

2002-11-19 Thread Laurens M. Fridael
Wesley Mason wrote: > Ok... > > Can we, for argument sake, in the parser have it translate the > pods://avantgo/back link to a link to the prior page? > > I think this solves alot of the problems. I totally agree. This is the best solution for now. Regards -Laurens

Re: Back/foward/home function code

2002-11-19 Thread Laurens M. Fridael
David A. Desrosiers wrote: >> No, you don't understand, I'm talking about the link *back* from C >> to A or B. Look at the The Onion for example. >> http://mobile.thenion.com/ > ^o > > Ugh, the worst of the offenders. There are no forms on th

Re: Back/foward/home function code

2002-11-19 Thread Wesley Mason
Ok... Can we, for argument sake, in the parser have it translate the pods://avantgo/back link to a link to the prior page? I think this solves alot of the problems. --Wes - Original Message - From: "David A. Desrosiers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Plucker Development List" <[EMAIL PROTECT

VFS Best Practice

2002-11-19 Thread Wayne A. Arthurton
What are people doing to install your Plucker DBs to a memory card w/o having to manually change the location on each one? I'm considering making all my DBs start with pkr e.g. pkrSlashDot and then have in script run a move all DBs that start with pkr from the Install dir to the Memory Stik ins

Re: Back/foward/home function code

2002-11-19 Thread David A. Desrosiers
> No, you don't understand, I'm talking about the link *back* from C to A or > B. Look at the The Onion for example. http://mobile.thenion.com/ ^o Ugh, the worst of the offenders. There are no forms on the Onion's website, yet they

Win32 Plucker Conduit.

2002-11-19 Thread Blake Winton
> > What do you mean by a "dedicated conduit"? Plucker has had > > a (Win32) conduit for quite a while now. > Where? Right! That was harder to find than I would have hoped. (Google gave me nothing for "Plucker conduit", so I had to go back through my saved email from the list to find it.) It's

Re: Back/foward/home function code

2002-11-19 Thread Laurens M. Fridael
Blake Winton wrote: > What do you mean by a "dedicated conduit"? Plucker has had > a (Win32) conduit for quite a while now. Where? Regards -Laurens ___ plucker-dev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.rubberchicken.org/mailman/listinfo/plucker-

Re: Back/foward/home function code

2002-11-19 Thread Laurens M. Fridael
David A. Desrosiers wrote: >> If you have a structure. A->C, B->C then you might actually want back >> functionality. Otherwise you have to create two copies of C (A<-C1, >> B<-C2) wasting bandwidth and space for what is essentially the same >> page. > > This makes no sense to me whatsoever. You do

Re: Back/foward/home function code

2002-11-19 Thread Laurens M. Fridael
MJ Ray wrote: > There's a conversation just started on [EMAIL PROTECTED] and > it seems that SVG may not be in a happy place for free software > either, because of patents held on some of its core methods. Akin to the LZW patent used by GIF? I'll take a look. > Please, get your hands dirty and st

RE: Back/foward/home function code

2002-11-19 Thread Blake Winton
> > If you have a structure. A->C, B->C then you might actually > > want back functionality. Otherwise you have to create two > > copies of C (A<-C1, B<-C2) > This makes no sense to me whatsoever. You don't need more > than one copy of C at all, just keep referencing C from > wherever you call it.

Re: Back/foward/home function code

2002-11-19 Thread MJ Ray
Laurens M. Fridael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [...] The Adobe SVG plug-in, for instance, is still way too heavy compared > to Flash and there aren't enough good SVG authoring tools for designers, > nothing that can compare with Flash MX, that is. [...] There's a conversation just started on [EMA

Avantgo vs Plucker vs Zaurus

2002-11-19 Thread Tim Wentford
Just FYI, I've put a modified version of the Avantgo vs Plucker table on my website with an extra column added for Opie-Reader (the Zaurus/Opie on ipaq reader). It should give people a better idea of where I've got to with it - see http://www.timwentford.uklinux.net/a-vs-p.html I did it mostly as

Re: Back/foward/home function code

2002-11-19 Thread David A. Desrosiers
> If you have a structure. A->C, B->C then you might actually want back > functionality. Otherwise you have to create two copies of C (A<-C1, B<-C2) > wasting bandwidth and space for what is essentially the same page. This makes no sense to me whatsoever. You don't need more than one copy

Re: Back/foward/home function code

2002-11-19 Thread Laurens M. Fridael
David A. Desrosiers wrote: > [page a] -follows link to-> [page b] > > [link on page b called "Back" ] > If you have a structure. A->C, B->C then you might actually want back functionality. Otherwise you have to create two copies of C (A<-C1, B<-C2) wasting bandwidth and space for what is essential