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(...) In other words, back when the Spotlight pages were begun, it was very easy to justify trying that out, because it literally was zero programming to implement it -- it's just one particular application of the plaintext markup format I was (...) (25 years ago, 2-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) If the Spotlight data were in an easy-to-munge format, it would be pretty straightforward, ya, but it actually grew up out of a plaintext format. Here's an example of today's page in its raw form that I edit in a browser window edit box: (URL) (...) (25 years ago, 2-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Same functionality. Only you can also put the links bar in your taskbar (It's the Links selection under toolbars). You can also put your address bar in the taskbar. With these options, you can go to your bookmarks even if your browser isn't (...) (25 years ago, 2-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) I see. It's a lot like RDF then. Neat-o. --Todd (25 years ago, 2-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) www.perl.com recently had an article on it: (URL) RSS is an XML file served by http which contains channel information; the RSS client (e.g. slashdot.org, my.netscape.com, my.yahoo.com, etc.) slurps it and spews out HTML on the end-user's (...) (25 years ago, 2-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Wherefinds one documents on what is RSS? --Todd (25 years ago, 2-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Like with channels and RSS and stuff? (please say yes please say yes) Any chance that the Spotlight will be exposed in RSS format? Cheers, - jsproat (25 years ago, 2-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Excellent! I didn't know Internet Exploiter had that. Here's one thing I've been experimenting with in Netscrape Navigator... (2 URLs) close to that level of flexibility does MSIE come? --Todd (25 years ago, 2-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) One URL: (URL) and per-user preferences on how to display that page -- kinda like a "My LUGNET" kind of thing. --Todd (25 years ago, 2-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Well, I don't have a bookmark - I have a link at the top of my page, in the 'links' feature that IE has. Very useful... -Shiri (25 years ago, 2-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Now *you* lost *me*. :-) -Shiri (25 years ago, 2-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) I have Lugnet as the home button. Alan (25 years ago, 2-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Yes, well, it comes up after I get to the "L" on I.E. too, but you know what I mean. Something that we grissly veterans are used to. Rich -- Have Fun! C-Ya! Legoman34 ***** Legoman34 (Richard W. Schamus)... (No, I don't work for TLC, but I (...) (25 years ago, 2-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Funny, I don't have a bookmark to LUGNET :) It's so easy to type, and netscape fills in the rest after I type www.l, which is faster than searching through bookmarks. --Bram (25 years ago, 2-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) I'm assuming this is a tongue-in-cheek reference to the huge security loophole, neh? Agreed, unless it were possible for a member to do it, AFTER logon. James (URL) your messages don't appear to be threading properly (at least via the web (...) (25 years ago, 2-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) OK, that's what threw me. When the homepage splits into two different display venues, it'll still have one URL. --Todd (25 years ago, 2-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) <snip> (...) Great, I just didn't want that idea to get lost in the mad rush to do something good less experiance people. (Grok, now there's a word I haven't heard a "normal" person use. I'm glad you do grok.) Rich -- Have Fun! C-Ya! Legoman34 (...) (25 years ago, 2-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) to (...) He meant the opening page, www.lugnet.com. This was in response to Bram's suggestion of changing the homepage, and I quote: "Although it might make life a little more difficult for seasoned users, I think a simpler entry page might be (...) (25 years ago, 2-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) OK, ya, now I grok what you're saying. Yah, we plan to do just that -- Suzanne has a few nice designs drawn up too, it's just a matter of making it happen. One thing we want to do is make CLSotW, the Spotlight stuff, and new member notices a (...) (25 years ago, 2-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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Sorry Todd. Let me try again. Supposition: Change the first/topmost page of www.lugnet.com to something that beginners might not be so daunted by, as Kevin Salm suggests, and Tony Priestman and Bram Lambrecht concer with. You decide that this is (...) (25 years ago, 2-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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