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

[Paul Riismandel]

That's a good suggestion, Dave.

Techies-- do we want to discuss plans for spec'ing software this Wed?

--Paul

At 10:59 AM 8/28/2001 -0500, David Young wrote:

>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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