[461] in Project_DB
Re: very sketchy html templates for project notebook...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Cattey)
Tue Apr 6 13:18:25 1999
Date: Tue, 6 Apr 1999 13:18:17 -0400 (EDT)
From: Bill Cattey <wdc@MIT.EDU>
To: project-db@MIT.EDU, Mike Barker <mbarker@MIT.EDU>
In-Reply-To: <4.1.19990403114205.02eeea90@po8.mit.edu>
I think Mike has made an excellent start in proposing the project
notebook templates. I have two issues with what has been proposed, a
small one and a big one:
Small:
Netscape goes out of its way to make the templates look ugly.
I'd suggest we set the background color and the highlight color
compatibly with the IS style. Should be trivial to do, but I think it
will be perceived as a high value change.
Big:
The information proposed for inclusion is definitely the right
information to require. It was put originally in the Project Database
because it was deemed important, and I think it's good that we continue
to view it as important. The interface to update it through the project
database was unpleasant to use. I think a tool to update web pages with
that data at least as good as the old Project Database interface is
required.
It could be that Mike was thinking of that already, but didn't mention
it. I am scared of the prospect of requiring myself and others to
maintain the same information I never updated with no alternative to
mucking with raw HTML to do it.
QUESTION: Can we make maintaining these data inexpensive?
-wdc
