[antlr-interest] Re: the new site

Sat Jul 5 09:42:50 PDT 2003

Hi :)

I'd rather not rely on CSS for the look...my string template stuff 
works great for the pages...it's just that the doc has some formatting 
text inside...I'll be redoing the doc soon anyway. ;)

Thanks for the note.
Terence

On Friday, July 4, 2003, at 12:47  PM, Patrik Suzzi wrote:

> hello !
>
> the new site is so good.
>
> but why don't you use syilesheets to gain uniformity on the site ?
>
> for example documentation pages are written with a different style
> with all other pages of the site.
>
> if you include a line in every documentation page, between <head>
> and </head> tags, you can change the look of all these pages only by
> editing the stylesheet
>
> the line is:
>
> <LINK type='text/css' rel='stylesheet' href='../style/style.css'/>
>
> where href indicates the path of the stylesheet
>
> so you can change thousand of documentation pages, just by editing
> the stylesheet.
>
> an example of stylesheet is:
> H1
> {
>   color: green;
>   font-family: verdana;
> }
> P
> {
>   font-size: 12 px;
>   font-family: arial;
> }
>
> Last i've observed if you edit your css's files with Visual
> Studio .NET, it helps with intellisense: giving for each Tag all
> possible attributes, and for all attributes it give a list of all
> possible finite-values.
>
> (I do not love MS but this is a rapid developement tool)
>
> Please excuse me for my poor english..
> with best regards:
>                              Patrik Suzzi (Imola - Bologna - Italy)
>
>
>
> --- In antlr-interest at yahoogroups.com, Terence Parr <parrt at c...>
> wrote:
>> Thanks for the feedback everyone!  Glad you like it.  I paid an
>> excellent designer out of my pocket to do the look-n-feel.
>>
>> I like the main page / secondary page split.  A little weird that
> the
>> left navigation bar is only on the secondary pages, but I wanted
> the
>> main page to be a "summary" page of each of the various categories.
>>
>> The concept for the site is that there are 2 types of folks: (1)
> new
>> users asking what, why, how much, who uses it and (2) current
> users
>> asking about doc, grammars, tools, news etc...  I split this up
> and
>> hopefully it is the right approach.
>>
>> Feel free to add more stuff folks as the data and site is real,
> just at
>> a different port (8080) as you can see.
>>
>> I'll be playing with this all weekend and hopefully launch on
> Monday.
>>
>> As for people posting bad stuff etc... well, I'll worry about that
> if
>> it becomes an issue. :)
>>
>> I'll be happy to receive more feedback or suggestions :)
>>
>> Oh, I'll be doing an email snooper gateway thing so that the
>> antlr-interest list (this list) will be mirrored on the site. :)
> I'll
>> have it integrated into the search engine too.  (I'll be using
> Lucene
>> for seaching if anybody wants to know).
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Terence
>> --
>> Professor Comp. Sci., University of San Francisco
>> Creator, ANTLR Parser Generator, http://www.antlr.org
>> Co-founder, http://www.jguru.com
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>
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