[mnet-devel] more about the old HTTP UI

[Arno Waschk]

Hm, I guess those templates are working, and I broke something else which 
seems to be breaking those templates' work, and i hoped to be able to 
understand that by reading these .dhtml files. I did not intend to fix 
there anything, but I do not want to demote that second-class cititzen down 
to unusable fifth-class....

Regards,

Arno

On 26 Jul 2003 15:00:42 -0400, Zooko <zooko at zooko.com> wrote:

>
> So, once you look into the templates, then your eyes suddenly go cross- 
> eyed, because your eyes are used to looking at clean, well documented 
> Python code, and the templates are full of this awful mishmash of HTML, 
> Python fragments, and this other string-interpolation language "DTML".
>
> What do you do?  Well, in v0.7 a.k.a. mnet_new, what to do is obvious -- 
> write a fresh new HTML-based UI using Twisted and some really nice and 
> not-too-
> powerful Python Web Engine.  (Not-too-powerful because really, we only 
> have like half-a-dozen web pages with a form or two.  We should be able 
> to pull this off with the simplest, most minimal tool around.  Maybe just 
> straight Python that returns strings containing HTML?)
>
> But for v0.6, here are a few suggestions:
>
> a.  Just ignore it.  Let the old Mojo Nation-inherited HTTP UI rot.  Warn 
> people that it is a second-class citizen next to the wx UI.  This is 
> already the case, as there are some features that are just not supported 
> under the HTTP UI (such as publishing a file with Mozilla without 
> manually entering the appropriate URL in Mozilla's URL window halfway 
> through the process).
>
> b.  Ask a DTML expert like tav at espians.com to debug it or add the feature 
> that you want.  That's what I've done in the past, which is why tav's 
> name is in the CREDITS file now.
>
> c.  Squint, and try some careful "search and replace" or "tweak it and 
> run it again to see what it does" it sorts of experiments.  I've done 
> that, too, and perhaps I could help you with it.
>
> --Z
>
>
>
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