[Pydotorg-redesign] Graphic redesign

Aahz aahz at pythoncraft.com
Fri Jul 18 16:18:43 EDT 2003


On Fri, Jul 18, 2003, Walter Dörwald wrote:
> Fred L. Drake, Jr. wrote:
>>
>>- functionality:  Are they missing something they need?  Are they
>>  getting in the way of something else?
> 
> Using XIST would open up several possibilities: Using custom
> conversion not only for the global page structure, but inside the
> content area as well. Several conversion modes: I can think of
> RSS and PDF. For the XIST pages themselves I'm currently implementing
> automatic PDF generation. I've put the current state of the XIST pages
> on http://styx.livinglogic.de/~walter/python/. If you have Mozilla
> installed, the site navigation bar provides links to several versions
> of the page. Or you can simply replace the .html extension with .pdf
> to get the PDF version. We could extract reSTified docstrings from
> Python files and put them into webpages. ...

What I'd suggest starting with is leaving the XIST structure internal to
ht2html, and only adding the bare minimum of necessary navigation
information to .ht and .h files for supporting the breadcrumbs and
navbar.  Once that has proven itself, we can talk about converting the
.ht files themselves to XIST.
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