[Gimp-web] Static pages for m.g.o

[Helvetix Victorinox]

  The trouble with this is the main index.html (nee index.htrw) actually
includes the news file (includes/news.inc) and is a real dynamic page.
We could solve this by avoiding the include altogether and using
OBJECT or EMBED, but I don't know how that will affect the Netscape
4 compatibility.

  So either a new way to include the dynamic news data on the top-level
index.html needs to be devised, or we rename the .htrw files (those that
can really become static) .ssi and vice-versa.  I favour the latter because
renaming files (which I'm happy to take care of) is less troublesome in terms
of testing, ongoing maintenance, and accessibility to non-programmers, than
in more code.

  Comments?

Helvetix

On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 08:05:11PM +0200, Raphaël Quinet wrote:
> On Tue, 2 Sep 2003 20:22:53 -0700, Helvetix Victorinox <helvetix@mysterious.org> wrote:
> > Barring objections, I'd like to modify the Makefile to cause the attribute
> > rewriter AND thte faux-SSI preprocessor to be applied to files ending with
> > the suffix .ssi
> 
> Thanks, but this is not what I was interested in: there are only two
> *.ssi files in the whole site, and both of them are in the admin
> section (invisible to most users).  What I would like to have to a
> preprocessor for the *.htrw file.  In other words, there should not be
> a single dynamic page left in the site.
> 
> The current version of the site is very difficult to test because it
> requires all potential contributors to set up their own web server
> using Apache with SSI.  This makes contributing much harder than it
> should be (see also the message from Dave).  It has also been a
> problem for me in the last few days, because the PC that I am using
> temporarily does not have a web server so it is hard for me to test
> any changes that I make to the page layout.
> 
> So please enable SSI rewriting for all *.htrw files.  In fact, I would
> suggest to rename the *.ssi files to *.htrw and remove all rules for
> *.ssi from the Makefiles, so that we have only one way to process
> pages.  This would simplify the Makefile and this could also be
> helpful for potential contributors.
> 
> Could you do this now (or as soon as possible)?  Thanks in advance.
> 
> -Raphaël
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