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Re: Cleaning up the main homepage
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lugnet.admin.general
Date: 
Mon, 13 Mar 2000 03:15:05 GMT
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Todd Lehman wrote:

In lugnet.admin.general, Jeremy H. Sproat writes:
Is LUGNET modular enough to allow many hands in the code?

It really isn't, no.  But from time to time there might be things which are
encapsulatable enough to be done independently and worked in afterwards.  The
FTX-to-HTML compiler, for example, is fairly encapsulated -- except for the
transclusion portions which slurp in news articles.

Just occurred to me earlier today - someone said it's too bad you can't
view links like <set:8880> in the newsreader - then I thought, why can't
we put a filter between incoming messages and the news DB to make it
possible?   basically move the processing part of the <> tags from the
web interface to the backbone... then in the newsreader you'll see
http://www.lugnet.com/?query=8880.... which most newsreaders will
transform to a working link...

comments?  Is it even possible?

:)

Dan



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  Re: Cleaning up the main homepage
 
(...) It needs to be a late-binding thing. The conversion from <set:8880> to <A HREF="/pause/search/...80&gt;</A> in the web interface happens at on-the-fly only at display-time. If you have a highly configurable newsreader (like something (...) (25 years ago, 13-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)

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  Re: Cleaning up the main homepage
 
(...) It really isn't, no. But from time to time there might be things which are encapsulatable enough to be done independently and worked in afterwards. The FTX-to-HTML compiler, for example, is fairly encapsulated -- except for the transclusion (...) (25 years ago, 13-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)

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