[463] in Project_DB
Re: very sketchy html templates for project notebook...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mike Barker)
Thu Apr 8 20:17:36 1999
Date: Wed, 07 Apr 1999 10:40:26 -0400
To: Bill Cattey <wdc@MIT.EDU>
From: Mike Barker <mbarker@MIT.EDU>
Cc: project-db@MIT.EDU, Mike Barker <mbarker@MIT.EDU>
In-Reply-To: <Qr2Y7NwGgE6e0GNMY0@mit.edu>
Oops -- I figured people who wanted to avoid the agony of raw html would use
netscape composer. Bring up netscape on your system, then look at tools (I
think). Down a bit is composer. click there, and then tell it to open the
file (you can open the ones in http://web.mit.edu/pm/notebook/ if you want).
(note: pc folks may need to download it from netscape -- it's free. or they
may want to get the cwis recommended one -- home page?)
edit using this, then "save as" to put it in your own location.
I'd rather not get into maintaining a tool for html editing -- just use the
ones that are around.
mike
At 01:18 PM 4/6/99 -0400, Bill Cattey wrote:
:)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
