[Mailman-Developers] HTML Issue

Barry A. Warsaw barry@digicool.com
Mon, 25 Jun 2001 16:34:37 -0400


>>>>> "JD" == James Dinan <james@gilbertwalker.com> writes:

    JD> One problem that I have is that somtimes funny things will
    JD> happen inside the <MM-...> tags.

Have I mentioned how much I dislike the <mm-> tags?  Or how much I
reaaally hate having both those and normal Python %()s string
substitutions? ;)

    JD> If you're interested to see how far I've gotten, the mailing
    JD> list I'm working on (for my summer job) is available at
    JD> http://www.gilbertwalker.com/mailman/listinfo/advisorbits.
    JD> Assuming I haven't broken it again it should still be up.
    JD> But, you will notice that there are still many error messages
    JD> which I cannot touch the HTML for.  :/

I'll have to check this out when I get home.  I don't have an easy way
to do Javascript here.

    JD> Oh yeah, one other idea I had (this really pertains to my
    JD> particular site architecture) is that it would be incredibly
    JD> convenient to have a customizable page header and footer that
    JD> could be called via an <MM-...> tag that you could wrap any
    JD> sort of content in.  Sort of like making HeadlessDocument()
    JD> customizable I guess.

I agree.  At this point though, I just want to get the basics of the
web ui fixed.  I don't think I'll have the cycles to completely revamp
the whole thing.

-Barry