From kde-devel Mon Jul 26 10:37:29 1999 From: Boris Povazay Date: Mon, 26 Jul 1999 10:37:29 +0000 To: kde-devel Subject: RFC: Midgard or Zope on the KDE server? X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-devel&m=93298544930062 The KDE-Standard-Website-Project is currently going full-steam ahead. Right now we are facing a problem with the use of templates. Since KDE (kfm) is not supporting HTML4.0 in every detail (as all the other browsers do), it is impossible to include external Textfragments in the straight-forward way of using the feature. There exist other ways, apart of a feature change in KDE, to achieve this: The fist is the idea of L.widdershoven@fz-juelich.de, who tries to include these with a tiny program (see: KreateProjectHomepage at http://ipp387.ipp.kfa-juelich.de/~leon) The second is to use an application server like Midgard (strongly advocated by Henri.Bergius@iki.fi) or Zope, which are both released unter the GPL (in different flavors) and would allow to modify content via a web-interface by the developer (user). The later would recommend to have the application server installed centrally (at the kde-site: http://devel-home.kde.org/) which could be mirrored to other sites. This does have some benefits (easy, independent manipulation of design and content, web interface...) but also some drawbacks (central organisation, centralized traffic, no basic HTML,...) Now I wonder if there exists the ability and interest to host maintain and use such a system. This could help to let us (programers, designers and content contributors) work together easier and a bit tighter to attract more public attention and with it helpers. It would then also be easier to notice if there are similar efforts, which then could be sooner integrated! ciao BoP -- http://kde.jouh.at - bp@jouh.at DI Boris Povazay