[Imc-tech] Active vs. Slashcode vs. whatever

[David Young]

I suggest IMC produce a spec for the software it needs and then evaluate
Active, Slash, et cetera, against the spec.  Finally, IMC should consider
whether programmers on this list can make something "to order."

If you will program something "to order," consider putting into the
spec a few levels of capability (and a plan for reaching each level),
so that you can sate the desire to write down an enormous feature set,
but achieve the bare minimum very rapidly.

Slashcode almost seems too featureful to me. I think that the moderation
stuff, if it is not turned off, will be useless at best, and dangerous
at worst.  I am a big advocate of "principled" designs, and I have
a feeling that all the Web log systems out there have "unprincipled"
(read: adhoc, hackish, accidental) moderation systems.

Dave

On Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 10:20:02AM -0500, Clinton Popetz wrote:
> 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
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