[Imc-tech] Dan Kicks Active Ass!

[Clinton Popetz]

On Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 03:07:43AM -0500, Daniel S. Lewart wrote:
> Joe,
> 
> > The new active version doesn't look right in IE 5.5 for Windoze.  The
> > featured stories column is too narrow, leaving a big gap between it
> > and the newswire.  The problem doesn't seem to happen under Netscape
> > for Linux.
> 
> Paul uploaded a new imcfront.inc, which seems to have improved things.
> How does it look for you now?
> 
> The real problem is that Active software generates crappy non-conformant
> HTML.  Thus one has no right to expect the pages to render at all, much
> less decently.

The Active software (which due to its choice of an adjective as a
name, forces me to write "software" after it every time; Grrr) is
(as you know) pretty poor.  I've been trying to familiarize with it,
and I'm not impressed.

Do we have any non-technical reason for wanting to stick with it?  By
that I mean: is there an advantage to using the same software that
many of the other IMC sites are using?  If not, we might consider
alternatives (slashcode, for one.)  

				-Clint